But to Captain Aylmer himself, he could not bring himself to say pleasant things or to express pleasant wishes.

She who was to be Captain Aylmer's wife, who loved him, would of course have told him what had occurred up among the rocks in Belton Park; and if that was so, any meeting between Will and Captain Aylmer would be death to the former.
Thinking of all this he journeyed down to Taunton, and thinking of all this he made his way from Taunton across to Belton Park..