Gone.
Nobody knows where he's gone.

Oh, of course not! Nobody knew he was going.

Oh, of course not! The landlady thought up to the very last moment that they were merely going for a ride; she had no other suspicion.

Oh, of course not! She's not this fellow's creature.

Oh, of course not!' Adding to these exclamations a kind of ironical howl, and gazing upon the company for one brief instant afterwards, in a sudden silence, the irritated gentleman started off again at the same tremendous pace, and was seen no more.
It was in vain for Mr Pecksniff to assure them that this new and opportune evasion of the family was at least as great a shock and surprise to him as to anybody else.