Apparently they slept in the forest, and in the morning sought the plain, swimming the river to reach it.

I knelt and would have drunk, but the water was hot, and had a strange metallic taste.
I leapt to my feet: here was the warmth I sought--the first necessity of life! I sped back to my helpless charge.
Without well considering my solitude, no one will understand what seemed to lie for me in the redemption of this woman from death.

"Prove what she may," I thought with myself, "I shall at least be lonely no more!" I had found myself such poor company that now first I seemed to know what hope was.

This blessed water would expel the cold death, and drown my desolation! I bore her to the stream.

Tall as she was, I found her marvellously light, her bones were so delicate, and so little covered them.