Not a speck or spot resembling a man's head or face showed anywhere.

By this time she was alarmed, and her alarm intensified when she perceived a little beyond the scene of her husband's bathing a small area of water, the quality of whose surface differed from that of the surrounding expanse as the coarse vegetation of some foul patch in a mead differs from the fine green of the remainder.
Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place.
She descended as hastily as her trembling limbs would allow.

The way down was terribly long, and before reaching the heap of clothes it occurred to her that, after all, it would be best to run first for help.
Hastening along in a lateral direction she proceeded inland till she met a man, and soon afterwards two others.

To them she exclaimed, 'I think a gentleman who was bathing is in some danger.

I cannot see him as I could.