"I was determined to get her home.

Why she went away I can't think! She acts in a way that is not at all likely to mend matters as far as I can see." (Grace had not told her father of her interview with Mrs.Charmond, and the disclosure that had been whispered in her startled ear.) "Since Edgar is come," he continued, "he might have waited in till I got home, to ask me how she was, if only for a compliment.

I saw him go out; where is he gone ?" Mrs.Melbury did not know positively; but she told her husband that there was not much doubt about the place of his first visit after an absence.

She had, in fact, seen Fitzpiers take the direction of the Manor House.
Melbury said no more.

It was exasperating to him that just at this moment, when there was every reason for Fitzpiers to stay indoors, or at any rate to ride along the Shottsford road to meet his ailing wife, he should be doing despite to her by going elsewhere.