"I can poach you a couple of eggs in just a minute, over the oil stove, and make you a cup of tea.

Is the fire out?
And, oh, Douglas! Has it burned any of our timber?
I have been so worried, I did not close my eyes once, all night." "Our timber is safe, I'm happy to say.

It really is safer, if anything, than it was before the fire started.

There will be no further possibility of fire creeping upon us from that quarter." He quaffed the lemonade with little, restrained sighs of enjoyment.

"It also occurred to me that every forest fire must necessarily increase the value of what timber is left.