Lost in the Wilds of Canada

She was a Wild-looking Being, but Her awakening glance of Alertness need not have alarmed Wilfred, for she was only intent upon dipping him a cup of water from the steaming kettle. She was careful to taste it and cool it with a little of the snow still driving through a hole in the roof, until she made it the right degree of heat that was safest for Wilfred in his starving condition.