On his way home the Terror went briskly round by Pringle's pond and picked up the skates and garments that had been left there.

When he reached home he found that Erebus was in bed.

She seemed little the worse for lying with her arms and chest in that icy water, keeping Wiggins afloat; and when she learned that Wiggins also seemed none the worse and was sleeping peacefully, she ate her lunch with a fair appetite.
The Terror did not point out that all the trouble had sprung from her disregard for his instructions; he only said: "I just told Mr.
Carrington that Wiggins was already in the water when I got to the pond." "That was awfully decent of you," said Erebus after a pause in which she had gathered the full bearing of his reticence..