What would happen next?
She was really frightened when she recognized Oscar's banner, and read the too distinctly printed motto which embellished it.

Clarissa looked anxiously at the different doors for fear that Mrs.Stanhope might come through one of them.

She asked the man what his business might be.

He replied that they had discovered that the owner of the banner he held in his hand belonged at Rosemount, and also that they had come to the conclusion that all that affair was only boys' play, though at first the miller had thought otherwise because of the motto.

This was why he had informed the police.