He snatched them up, grinning widely, though fearful that she might see the grin, and carefully laid them over the back of a chair, pulling the chair close to the fire.
Then he got out a frying-pan and began to prepare supper for her.

When the aroma of the sizzling bacon was wafted to her, he heard her exclaim: "U-um, that smells good! Why, I am almost famished!" Five minutes later, with a plate in her lap and a cup of steaming coffee resting on the rail of the bunk, she was eating.

Her eyes were bright and her color high as she watched Lawler, who was seated at the table with his back to her.
"You don't feel much like talking, do you ?" "No," he said.

"According to the way this norther is whooping it up we'll run out of talk before we can break trail out of here." "Do you mean that the storm may last some days ?" "There is no telling.

At this time of the year they are mighty uncertain.