'It is not three o'clock yet.

I'll make you a bit of fire in a minute if you like, in one of the rooms.

In here----' she added, opening the door of a small bedroom next to the tapestry room, 'it'll light in a minute, the chimney can't be cold, for there was one yesterday.

I put fires in each in turns.' "We felt sorry to trouble her, but it seemed really necessary, for just then our driver came to the door to tell us he had had to take out the horses and put them into the stable.
"'They seemed dead beat,' he said, 'with the heavy roads.

And besides it would be impossible to drive in the midst of such very thick falling snow.