Not only cold was it that made Carley shudder.

How lonely, how lost, how hidden this canyon! Then she hurried to bed, grateful for the warm woolly blankets.
Relaxation and thought brought consciousness of the heat of her blood, the beat and throb and swell of her heart, of the tumult within her.

In the lonely darkness of her room she might have faced the truth of her strangely renewed and augmented love for Glenn Kilbourne.

But she was more concerned with her happiness.

She had won him back.