"First and foremost, I want you to tell me where Mr.and Mrs.
Holbrook are now living." The parish-clerk shook his head with a stately slowness.
"Not to be done, sir," he said: "when Mr.and Mrs.Holbrook left here they went the Lord knows where.

They went away the very day they were married.

There was a fly waiting for them at the church-door, with their luggage upon it, when the ceremony was over, ready to drive them to Grangewick station.

I saw them get into it and drive away; and that's every mortal thing that I know as to what became of them after they were married in yonder church." "You don't know who this Mr.Holbrook is ?" "No more than the babe unborn, sir.

He was a stranger in this place, was only here long enough to get the license for his marriage.