The whole thing passed so rapidly that Delaine and Elizabeth, running at full speed, had hardly reached the spot before Anderson was on the shore, bearing the lad in his arms.
Elizabeth bent over him with a moan of anguish.

He seemed to her dead.
"He has only fainted," said Anderson peremptorily.

"We must get him in." And he hurried on, refusing Delaine's help, carrying the thin body apparently with ease along the path and up the steps to the hotel.

The guide had already been sent flying ahead to warn the household.
Thus, by one of the commonplace accidents of travel, the whole scene was changed for this group of travellers.

Philip Gaddesden would have taken small harm from his tumble into the lake, but for the fact that the effects of rheumatic fever were still upon him.