A note for Lady Merton explained his flight, gave all directions for the drive to Lake Louise, and expressed his hope to be with them again as expeditiously as possible.

Three days had now elapsed since he had left them.

Delaine, rather to Elizabeth's astonishment, had once or twice inquired when he might be expected to return.
Elizabeth found a little path by the lake shore, and pursued it a short way; but presently the splendour and the beauty overpowered her; her feet paused of themselves.

She sat down on a jutting promontory of rock, and lost herself in the forms and hues of the morning.

In front of her rose a wall of glacier sheer out of the water and thousands of feet above the lake, into the clear brilliance of the sky.