In ten minutes Wiggins was quite animate, able to talk faintly, trying not to cry with the pain of returning circulation.
The Terror sent the cook and housemaid to get the sheets off his bed and warm the blankets.

In another five minute's Mr.Carrington carried Wiggins up to it, and gave him a dose of ammoniated quinine.

Presently he fell asleep.
The Terror had taken his coat off Wiggins; but he was still without stockings and a jersey.

He borrowed stockings and a sweater from Mr.
Carrington, and now that the business of seeing after Wiggins was over, he told him how he had come to the pond to find Wiggins in the water and Erebus spread out on the ice, holding him back from sinking.

He was careful not to tell him that he had forbidden Erebus to let Wiggins go on the ice; and when Mr.Carrington began to thank him for saving him, he insisted on giving all the credit to Erebus.
Mr.Carrington made him also take a dose of ammoniated quinine, and then further fortified him with cake and very agreeable port wine.