Before he returned they were all three starting for the Castle, Beatrice leaving a message to this effect with Betty.
About a quarter of an hour afterwards, Geoffrey came back to fetch his gun and Beatrice, but Beatrice was gone, and all that he could extract from Betty was that she had gone to see Mr.Davies.
He was perfectly furious, though all the while he knew how unreasonable was his anger.

He had been looking forward to the expedition, and this sudden change of plan was too much for his temper.

Off he started, however, to pass a thoroughly miserable afternoon.

He seemed to miss Beatrice more each step and gradually to grow more and more angry at what he called her "rudeness." Of course it never occurred to him that what he was really angry at was her going to see Mr.Davies, or that, in truth, her society had become so delightful to him that to be deprived of it even for an afternoon was to be wretched.

To top everything, he only got three good shots that afternoon, and he missed them all, which made him crosser than ever.
As for Beatrice, she enjoyed herself just as little at the Castle as Geoffrey did on the beach.