And he was as good as his word.

He kept a constant eye on the management of the chair: and when Ransom neglected his duty, gave him a word of admonition or advice, so keen and contemptuous in its rebuke, though slight and dry, that even Ransom's thickness of apprehension felt it, and sheered off from meeting it.

The last part of the distance Daisy was thoroughly well cared for, and in silence; for the doctor's presence had put a stop to all bantering between the boys.

In furious silence on Ransom's part this last portion of the way was accomplished.
At the lake at last! And in Daisy's breast at least, everything but pleasure was now forgotten.

A very beautiful sheet of water, not very small either, with broken shores, lay girdled, round with the unbroken forest.