Chapter 25

"Why not stop downstairs a little longer? I can make up the fire in there in a jiffy--the one you--er--rested--so comfortably by last evening. It's only twelve-twenty." "I may permit myself to slumber by a country gentleman's fire for one evening," admitted Ross from the fourth step up, "but not for two, consecutively. Just now--I never was wider awake in my life----" "Neither was I. Then why----" "But given that couch, and the luxuriously lapping warmth of the fire, _and_ the fact that I must have danced at least …