A sight so vast and magnificent held them silent for a little; then suddenly, Jim, looking at Alice, saw that she was shivering.
"What is the matter, Alice, my dear?" he said; "let us come away; the snow-wind is too much for you."
"Oh! it is not that!" she said. "Somebody is walking over my grave."
"Oh, that's all!" said Jim; "they are always at it with me, in cold weather. Let 'em. It won't hurt, that I know of."
But they turned homeward nevertheless; and coming through the rock walls again, Jim said,
"Sam, what was that battle the Doctor and you were reading about one day, and you told me all about it afterwards, you know?"
"Malplacquet?"
"No; something like that, though. Where they got bailed up among the rocks, you know, and fought till they were all killed."
"Thermopylae?"
"Ah! This must be just such another place, I should think."