Methinks that water would boil were it placed here." This was indeed the case--the human frame, as is now well known, being capable of sustaining a heat considerably above that of boiling water.
The walls were now so hot that the hand could not be borne upon them for an instant.
"My feet are burning!" the prince exclaimed, "Reach down that ladder from the wall." They laid the ladder on the ground and stood upon it, thus avoiding any contact with the hot stone.
"If this goes on," Prince Rupert said, with a laugh; "there will be nothing but our swords left.

We are melting away fast, like candles before a fire.

Truly I do not think that there was so much water in a man as has floated down from me during the last half-hour." Harry was so placed that he could command a sight through the loophole, and he exclaimed, "They are riding away!" This was indeed the case.

The whole building was now one vast furnace, and having from the first no hope that their friends, if there, could have survived, they had, hearing that Lady Sidmouth and her daughter had been taken to Storton, determined to ride thither to take them from the hands of the Roundheads, and to learn from them the fate of their leaders.
Another two hours passed.

The heat was still tremendous, but they could not feel that it was increasing.