I will at once get you some food, and then you and Herbert can talk over what is best to be done." So saying she ran into the house, and returned in a few minutes with a bowl of milk and some freshly made cakes, which Harry drank and ate ravenously.

In the meantime, he was discussing with Herbert what was the best course to pursue.
"It would not be safe," Herbert said, "for you to try and journey further at present.

The search for you is very keen, and it happens, unfortunately, that the officer in command here is the very man whose face you sliced when he came to Furness Hall some two years back.

It would be a bad thing for you were you to fall into his hands." Lucy at first proposed that Harry should be taken into the house, and go at once to bed.

She and Herbert would then give out that a friend had arrived from a distance, who was ill, and, waiting upon him themselves, should prevent suspicion being attracted.