"Yes, he sees us and answers.

But what will he understand by that?
O dear! O dear! Would that I could make Willy see, or Robbie--perhaps _they_ would know.

Where can father be?
O where ?" A terrible sense of powerlessness came upon Rotha as she stood beside her prostrate companion within sight of the goal she had labored to gain, and the strong-hearted girl burst into a flood of tears.
VIII.

Yes, from the head of the pass Ralph Ray saw the scarf that was waved by Rotha, but he was too far away to recognize the girls.
"Two women, and one of them lying," he thought; "there has been an accident." Where he stood the leaden sky had broken into a drizzling rain, which was being driven before the wind in clouds like mist.

It was soaking the soft turf, and lying heavy on the thick moss that coated every sheltered stone.
"Slipt a foot, no doubt," thought Ralph.