yawns which she could not repress
showed her hosts how sleepy she was, and the Terror suggested that she
should go to bed.

With true courtesy, the Twins had given her the best sleeping-cave to
herself, but she displayed such a terrified reluctance to sleep in it
alone, that her couch of bracken and her blankets were moved into the
cave of Erebus. After the journey and the excitement she was not long
falling into a dreamless sleep.

When she awoke next morning, she found the Terror gone to fetch milk.
Erebus conducted her down to the pool for her morning bath. The
princess did not like it (she had had no experience of cold baths) but
under the eye of Erebus she could not shrink; and in she went. She
came out shivering, but Erebus helped rub her to a warm glow, and she
came to breakfast with such an appetite as she had never before in her
life enjoyed.

The knoll was indeed the ideal camping-ground for the romantic; the
caves with which it was honeycombed lent themselves to a score of games
of adventure; and the princess soon found that she had been called to
an active life. It began directly after breakfast with dish-washing;
after that she was breathless for an hour in two excited games both of
which meant running through the caves and round and over the knoll as
hard as you could run and at short intervals yelling as loud as you
could yell. After this they put on their bathing-dresses and disported
themselves in the pool till it was time to set about the serious
business of cooking the dinner, which they took soon after one o'clock.

The Terror kept a careful and protective eye on the princess, helping
her, for the most part vigorously, to cover the ground at the required
speed. Also he turned her out of the pool, to dry and dress, a full
half-hour before he and Erebus left it. After dinner the princess was
so sleepy that she could hardly keep her eyes open; and the Terror
insisted that she should lie down for an hour. She protested that she
did not want to rest, that she did not want to lose a moment of this
glorious life; but presently she yielded and was soon asleep.

They were expecting Wiggins in the afternoon. But he could be admitted
safely into the secret, since, once he knew that the princess had
become Lady Rowington, he would be able with sufficient truthfulness to
profess an entire ignorance of her whereabouts. Also he would be very
useful, for he could bring them word if suspicion had falle