Paget's an excellent fellow, but there's never any knowing what that sort of man will do.

You'd better throw him off the scent altogether.

Plant your aunt in Surrey--say Dorking." "But if he should want to write to me ?" "Tell him to address to the post-office, Dorking, as your aunt is inquisitive, and might tamper with your correspondence.

I daresay his letters will keep." "He could follow me to Dorking as easily as to Ullerton." "Of course he could," answered George Sheldon; "but then, you see, at Dorking the most he could find out would be that he'd been made a fool of; whereas if he followed you to Ullerton, he might ferret out the nature of your business there." Mr.Hawkehurst perceived the wisdom of this conclusion, and agreed to make Dorking the place of his relative's abode.
"It's very near London," he suggested thoughtfully; "the Captain might easily run down." "And for that very reason he's all the less likely to do it," answered the lawyer; "a man who thinks of going to a place within an hour's ride of town knows he can go any day, and is likely to think of going to the end of the chapter without carrying out his intention.

A man who resolves to go to Manchester or Liverpool has to make his arrangements accordingly, and is likely to put his idea into practice.