"We can fasten the door, and then nothing can get in.

And we have plenty of lunch left for our supper." At last Theodora reluctantly agreed to stay.

Promising to return for them by noon the next day, Halstead then started for home.

After he had gone, the girls gathered a quart or more of raspberries, to eat with their supper.

When they had finished the meal, they made, with the sacks of herbs, a couch on the floor of the "saloon," and Catherine fastened the door securely by leaning a narrow plank from the floor of the old barn against it.
For a while the girls lay and talked in low tones.