Also it smoked a little.
"'Twill get over that pretty soon," prophesied Mrs.Barnes.

"I can stand 'most any amount of smoke so long's there's heat with it.

Now, Emily, we'll haul that sofa up alongside and you lay down on it and get rested and warm.

I'd say get dry, too, but 'twould take a reg'lar blast furnace to dry a couple of water rats like you and me this night.

Perhaps we can dry the upper layer, though; that'll be some help.