She would have gone anywhere with him, at a moment's notice.

She obeyed him implicitly in everything." "But why should he have taken her away from this place in a secret manner ?" asked Gilbert; "he was free to remove her openly.

And then you describe him as taking an amount of trouble in his search for her, which might have been so easily avoided, had he acted with ordinary prudence and caution.

Say that he wanted to keep the secret of his marriage from the world in which he lives, and to place his wife in even a more secluded spot than this--which scarcely seems possible--what could have been easier for him than to take her away when and where he pleased?
No one here would have had any right to question his actions." Ellen Carley shook her head doubtfully.
"I don't know, sir," she answered slowly; "I daresay my fancies are very foolish; they may have come, perhaps, out of thinking about this so much, till my brain has got addled, as one may say.

But it flashed upon me all of a sudden one night, as Mr.Holbrook was standing in our parlour talking about his wife--it flashed upon me that he was in the secret of her disappearance, and that he was only acting with us in his pretence of anxiety and all that; I fancied there was a guilty look in his face, somehow." "Did you tell him about his wife's good fortune--the money left her by her grandfather ?" "I did, sir; I thought it right to tell him everything I could about my poor dear young lady's journey to London.