His only alienation was an occasional disappearance for a few days.

I never asked him where he went, and had never spoken to him concerning his mysterious remark about having been in Surrey.

Neither had I heard anything of his being there from father.

Once he told me that his father had explained the marriage of old Locke Morgeson; but that it was not clear to him that we were at all related.
In consequence of his rigorous life, I saw little of him.

Though urged by Alice, he did not come to our house, and we rarely met him elsewhere.