CHAPTER XXXI
“ It will smell,” I said, “but it will keep in the heat and keep out the rain and snow.”
We were surveying the completed seal-skin roof.
“ It is clumsy, but it will serve the purpose, and that is the main thing,” I went on, yearning for her praise.
And she clapped her hands and declared that she was hugely pleased.
“ But it is dark in here,” she said the next moment, her shoulders shrinking with a little involuntary shiver.
“ You might have suggested a window when the walls were going up,” I said. “It was for you, and you should have seen the need of a window.”
“ But I never do see the obvious, you know,” she laughed back. “And besides, you can knock a hole in the wall at any time.”
“ Quite true; I had not thought of it,” I replied, wagging my head sagely
