But you must be very quiet, because I think Father is inclined to go to sleep." "Katherine said I was not to go to bed until she came in, and I'm not so very tired," replied Phil, choking back a yawn with a great effort.
"I am, though.

And if you are in Father's room I shall be able to sit down here by the stove and rest without any worry.

So run along, laddie, and be sure that you come to rouse me if Father wants me," Mrs.Burton said.

Then, drawing a big shawl round her shoulders, she sat down in the rocking-chair vacated by Phil to wait for the return of her sister and brother.
She wondered why they had gone out, but did not worry about it, except on the score of Katherine's complexion.

Even that ceased to trouble her, as she swayed gently to and fro in the comfortable warmth flung out by the stove, and very soon she was fast asleep.
'Duke Radford, who lay in restless discomfort from the pain of his hurts, was the first to hear sounds of an arrival, and he tried to rouse Phil to see what all the commotion was about.