Another elopement is planned; it is to take place on Sunday, when everybody is at church.

But the "hero" cannot keep the secret; he tells everybody.

Another author would have found another instrument when he decided to defeat this elopement; but that is not McClintock's way.

He uses the person that is nearest at hand.
The evasion failed, of course.

Ambulinia, in her flight, takes refuge in a neighbor's house.