Now I want to speak a few words to Miss King, but it won't do for me to wake her up.

She wouldn't like it; and what's more, she might suspect that we'd been talking together about her.

I'll go back to the house and walk over here across the lawn.

I'll signal to you as soon as I'm ready to start, and then you go over and wake Miss King." "I wouldn't like to do it.

I'd be ashamed, for fear she might think I was taking a liberty." "I don't want you to go and shake her," said Meldon, "or pour cold water over her, or anything of that sort.