All day.

Is that not recompense ?" She smiled up into his face as they followed Adare and his wife.
"You may help Metoosin with the dogs," she suggested.

"I want you to be good friends--you and my beasts." The hours that followed proved to be more than empty ones for Philip.
Twice he went to the big room and found that Adare himself had yielded to the exhaustion of the long trip up from civilization, and was asleep.

He accompanied Metoosin to the pit and assisted in chaining the dogs, but Metoosin was taciturn and uncommunicative.

Josephine and her mother send down their excuses at supper time, and he sat down alone with Adare, who was delighted when he received word that they had been sleeping most of the afternoon, and would join them a little later.