Where do you s'pose he is, Trot?
"I don't s'pose anything.

He's gone, an' that's all I know 'bout it." Button-Bright sat on the bench beside her and thrust his hands in the pockets of his knickerbockers.

Then he reflected somewhat gravely for him.
"Cap'n Bill isn't around here," he said, letting his eyes wander over the dim garden, "so we must go somewhere else if we want to find him.
Besides, it's fast getting dark, and if we want to find a place to sleep we must get busy while we can see where to go." He rose from the bench as he said this and Trot also jumped up, drying her eyes on her apron.

Then she walked beside him out of the grounds of the King's castle.

They did not go by the main path, but passed through an opening in a hedge and found themselves in a small but well-worn roadway.