Chapter 31: XXXI

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 sealskin 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 wer…