She looked across the fire at me, face kind and concerned.

Very glad indeed,' and reached a hand across the fire.

Then I just sat there, across the fire, thinking things over.

A couple of the youngsters, I'm told, tried to run across the fire.

And was it this man across the fire who had recommended me?

She sat across the fire again, watching him with the boy.

Alex's one eye rose to his friend's face across the fire.

She sat across the fire from me and I was proud of her.

He looked across the fire at his giant friend, and something seemed to pass between them.

He gave his nephew a long, hard look across the fire.