But she woke out of this sleep with a start that almost woke Eustace. She could not remember where she was for a minute or two.
She felt cramped and stiff, and her feet were very cold. Raising her head, she saw one star looking down upon her through the hole in the roof, and she remembered all that had happened, and that their one hope of escaping from the cave lay in the tide going down. She wondered when that would be, and what the time was now.
Then she managed to move the little boy without waking him, so that she could move her feet, and change the position in which she was sitting.
But having done this, she could not go to sleep again. That one star up above seemed to be watching her and inviting her to keep her eyes open and look at it.
By degrees she noted that the deep blue of the sky was growing paler and paler, and the joyful thought came to her that the night was almost over, and the morning was coming at last.
She kept her eyes steadily fixed on the one rift of sky until her star paled, and the purple sky hid it. Then her eyes grew tired, and try as she would she could not keep them open, but fell asleep once more.
Meanwhile, Nurse had a troublesome time with the little ones. Miss Winny had grown fond of her little nurse, who was always ready to play with her. When she saw her walk away with her brother, and show no signs of coming back, she called—
"Lila! Lila! Me want you! Me want you!" and then turned to Nurse, and said, "Make Lila come back."
"She will come soon," said Nurse, soothingly.
But this did not satisfy Winny. "Me want her now! Me want her now!" she screamed; and then burst into a flood of tears, in which baby very soon joined.