Every moment they expected to be attacked, for, had the French advanced, the huts must have been left to themselves, in which case the garrison would have found themselves shelterless, and all their provisions and stores would have been consumed; but before noon the danger was over, for not only had the fires begun to burn low, but a heavy snow storm set in.

All day it continued.
"Now would be the time for them to attack," James Walsham said to his lieutenant.

"We can scarce see twenty yards away." "Now is their chance," Edwards agreed; "but I don't believe in their attacking.

I can't think who they have got in command.

He ought to be shot, a man with such a force as he has, hanging about here for four days when he could have carried the place, with a rush, any moment." "No, I don't think they will attack," James replied.