"Oh!" he cried, as it hit him in the face, "whence this sudden flow of sisterly kindness."
"As a reward for your thoughtfulness in providing the boat," said Grace.
"That means I'll have to look out, or she'll be wanting me to do something more before night," spoke Will.
"I hope Mr. Franklin has fires lighted in our cabin," remarked Grace after a bit. "It will be real chilly, I'm afraid," and she drew her very becoming furs closer about her. Her face was framed in them, and she looked, as Allen said, "like a picture on a magazine cover."
"I don't know whether to feel complimented or not," she confessed with a laugh. "I only know I'm cold-d-d-d-d! Burrrrr!" and she shivered.
"It isn't as warm as skating," said Allen. "But perhaps this may help," and with one hand he took from a box a long, round object. "It's a vacuum bottle of hot coffee," he explained. "I didn't think, until the last minute, or I'd have brought chocolate, Grace."
"Oh, coffee will do just as well!" she hastened to assure him. "It is just what I want to drive the shivers away."
"There are some cups there in that other box," said Allen to Frank. "If you'll get them out, and pass the refreshments around."
"Happy to oblige!" exclaimed Frank.
"There is sugar and milk already in the coffee," explained the young lawyer. "I hope none of you object."