Sitting up, she remembered slowly the events of the preceding day.
Her movement had caused another movement at some distance.

The Danite, sleeping on the alert like soldier or huntsman, was roused by the first sound she made, and when she continued to sit up he came near in the glimmering light.

She saw his dark form where he tarried a few paces away.
"You're all safe, ma'am.

Can't you go on sleeping ?" A watch of the night often brings to recollection some duty forgotten during the day.

"Do you know where Elvira Halsey is ?" "The young lady with the brown eyes that I have sometimes seen you with, ma'am ?" "Yes." Then Susannah added with the weak detail of a wretched mind, "She isn't very young." "Was she any relation to you, ma'am?
Were you very affectionate with her ?" Susannah explained the relationship.
The Danite thought, "If I tell her she's there she'll think it her duty to trapse back all the way to find her; she's that sort." Therefore, judging that a minor grief could not make much difference, he gave it as his opinion that Elvira was dead.