"Nurse, how can they see to eat in the dark?"

"The good God, Lady Mary, has so formed their eyes that they can see best
by night. I will read you, Lady Mary, a few Verses from Psalm civ.:--

"Verse 19. He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his
going down.

20. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
of the forest do creep forth.

21. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from
God.

22. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
down in their dens.

23. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
evening.

24. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
them all: the eath is full of thy riches.

"Thus you see, my dear lady, that our heavenly Father taketh care of all
his creatures, and provideth for them both by day and by night."

"I remember, nurse, that my dormice used to lie quite still, nestled
among the moss and wool in their little dark chamber in the cage, all day
long; but when it was night they used to come out and frisk about, and run
along the wires, and play all sorts of tricks, chasing one another round