This was more than they had dared to hope.
"Yes, I would, if I were you," replied Mercy, still in a perfectly natural tone.

"It would be so much better for you to be in a room with a fire in it for a few days.

There isn't any way of warming this room, is there ?" said she, looking all about, as if to see if it might not be possible still to put up a stove there.

"'Siah" turned his head away to hide a smile, so amused was he by the tact of the remark.

"No, I see there is no stovepipe-hole here," she went on, "so you'd much better move home.