I began to be afraid that I was lost and that I'd freeze to death.

And then I saw the light in the window--a little square that flickered feebly in the distance, and which sometimes seemed to disappear completely." She smiled, tremulously.
"It seemed that--after I got here--I was to freeze to death, anyway.

For I couldn't make you hear me.

I rode close to the door and pounded on it.
I was afraid to get off, for fear I would fall in that big drift near the door and not be able to get up again.

I was so cold and stiff----" She hesitated, and Lawler saw tears in her eyes.
It was the reaction, delayed by their talk.