It was natural that we should think this, knowing her solitary position." "Then you do not know where she went on leaving this place ?" "Not in the faintest degree.

Her departure was altogether unexpected by us.

My wife and daughters called upon her two or three times after the Captain's death, and were even anxious that she should come here to stay for a short time; but she would not do that.

She seemed grateful, and touched by their anxiety about her, but they could not bring her to talk of her future." "And she told them nothing of her intention to leave Lidford ?" "Not a word." This was all that Gilbert Fenton could learn.

His interview with the Rector lasted some time longer; but it told him nothing.