"It was the tide, merely the tide, which wellnigh caught us by surprise just as it did Sir Walter Scott's hero! The ocean outside is rising, and by a perfectly natural law of balance, the level of this lake is also rising.
Odakint az óceán vize megduzzadt, s a közlekedő edények természeti törvénye[54] következtében most a tó vízének felszíne is emelkedik. Nem történt semmi baj.