I guess, though, I'll eat the supper she has brought me first.

And that's a good idea about heating the tea, too.

I can get dry by the stove at the same time.

I'll have a chance to see Elta before bedtime, and she'd feel badly if I didn't eat her supper anyway." All of which goes to show how very little we know of what even the immediate future may bring forth, and that if we put off for a single hour doing that which ought to be done at once, what a likelihood there is that we may never have a chance to do it..