He fetched the mattress as well, and the boots he had given her, which he happened to find inside the doolie.
"You must wear these," he said, "if you sleep out."
She took them from him with a sigh of submission, sat down upon the mattress and prepared to pull them on.
"Don't put your hand into them," he said warningly.
She opened her eyes in question.
"It may make you cry," he smiled.
She repaid his memory with a glance of pleased surprise, and shook her head softly.
"Not now!" she said.
She held up the boot towards him, and thrust her arm down into its depths.
"So warm," she purred.