How cold it was! How cruelly, how bitingly cold! All her bones were beginning to ache.

A dreadful stiffness was creeping over her.

How long would her senses hold out, she wondered piteously?
How long?
How long?
It must be hours now since they had entered that freezing place, and with every minute it seemed to be growing colder.

Never in her life had she imagined anything so searching, so agonizing, as this cold.

It held her in an iron rigour against which she was powerless to struggle.