In the darkness of the Shop she saw Miss Ford stooping, trying to shut the big difficult drawer in which the witch kept her magic.
"It is frightfully explosive," said Sarah Brown.
Miss Ford started and straightened her back.

"Ah, Miss Brown....

I was just looking about...." Sarah Brown sat gasping on the counter, and the rest of the party re-entered the Shop, bringing the lantern.
"How very absurd all this is," said Miss Ford nervously,--"taking such a great deal of trouble about a necessitous case." "America is in my mind," said Lady Arabel.

"If we could get her there.
Anybody who has done anything silly goes to America.

Indeed, if I remember rightly, America is entirely populated with fugitives from somewhere else.