Let's break our fast, and while eating consider the best plan for the night.

Eloise, do you awaken refreshed ?" She came quickly forward, a smile for us both, looking dainty and sweet, although the heavy mass of brown hair appeared somewhat dishevelled from her unaccustomed pillow.
"I must have been exceedingly tired," she confessed pleasantly, "for I slept with never a dream, and this is my first experience of lying without the covering of a roof.

It was all strange and solemn at first, with never a sound except the dismal whispering of wind through the cane, and the dull murmur of the river.

The very, stillness, no doubt, lulled me to slumber.

Nay!" and she sprang hastily forward, taking from my hands the few provisions I was bearing.