'It is over!' he said.

'He ruins us all!' The millwright moved on, waving his stick triumphantly, and the two brothers stood still.

They could see his drab figure stalking along the path, and over his head the lights from the conservatory of Narrobourne House, inside which Albert Fellmer might possibly be sitting with Rosa at that moment, holding her hand, and asking her to share his home with him.
The staggering whitey-brown form, advancing to put a blot on all this, had been diminishing in the shade; and now suddenly disappeared beside a weir.

There was the noise of a flounce in the water.
'He has fallen in!' said Cornelius, starting forward to run for the place at which his father had vanished.
Joshua, awaking from the stupefied reverie into which he had sunk, rushed to the other's side before he had taken ten steps.

'Stop, stop, what are you thinking of ?' he whispered hoarsely, grasping Cornelius's arm.
'Pulling him out!' 'Yes, yes--so am I.