'Twould be better to wait an hour or two, till it went off.

There was a bag in the carriage--should he bring it in ?' "We had forgotten that we had brought with us some sandwiches and buns.
In our excitement we had never thought how late it was, and that we must be hungry.

Now, with the prospect of an hour or two's enforced waiting with nothing to do, we were only too thankful to be reminded of our provisions.

The fire was already burning brightly in the little room--'Mr.Walter's room' the young woman called it--'That must be the gentleman that was to be with Mr.Turner to-day,' I whispered to Mary--and she very good-naturedly ran back to her own little house to fetch the necessary materials for a cup of tea for us.
"'It is a fearful storm,' she informed us when she ran back again, white from head to foot, even with the short exposure, and indeed from the windows we could see it for ourselves.

'The snow is coming that thick and fast, I could hardly find my own door,' she went on, while she busied herself with preparations for our tea.