There was time for him to catch the last coach to Grangewick station.

He determined upon going from Grangewick to Lidford, instead of returning to London.

He wanted, if possible, to find out something more about this man Holbrook, who must surely have been known to some one at Lidford during his secret courtship of Marian Nowell.
He wasted two days at Lidford, making inquiries on this subject, in as quiet a manner as possible and in every imaginable quarter; but without the slightest result.

No one either at Lidford or Fairleigh had ever heard of Mr.Holbrook.
Gilbert's last inquiries were made in a singular direction.

After exhausting every likely channel of information, he had a few hours left before the departure of the fast train by which he had determined to return to London; and this leisure he devoted to a visit to Heatherly Park, in the chance of finding Sir David Forster at home.