It seemed to Mr.Manley that Mr.Flexen would not easily learn about the allowance unless Mr.Carrington also knew it, which seemed unlikely, though it was always possible that there was some record of it among the Lord Loudwater's papers at the Castle.

Soon after seven he left her to walk back to dine with Mr.Flexen.
Mr.Flexen had had a considerable surprise that afternoon.

He had told Robert Black to find William Roper and bring him to him.

He wished to hear the story he had told Lord Loudwater the evening before, for it might be of a triviality to make the hypothesis that Lord Loudwater had committed suicide yet less worthy of serious consideration.

Black was a long while finding William Roper, for he was at work in the woods.
Indeed, he had not yet heard that Lord Loudwater had been murdered, for he had been up most of the night, risen late, got his own breakfast in his out-of-the-way cottage in the depths of the West wood, and gone out on his rounds.