Yes, poor Jeremy was truly haunted.
IV That Miss Jones suspected nothing of these meetings must be attributed partly to that lady's habit of wrapping herself in her own thoughts on her walks abroad, and partly to her natural short-sightedness.

Once Mary said that she had noticed "a horrid man with a red face" staring at them; but Miss Jones, although she was not a vain woman, thought it nevertheless quite natural that men should stare, and fancied more frequently that they did so than was strictly the truth.
Jeremy, meanwhile, was occupied now with the thought as to what he would do did the Captain really want him to go away with him.

He discussed it with himself, but he did not doubt what he would do; he would go.

And he would go, he knew, with fear and dread, and with a longing to stay, and be warm in the schoolroom, and have jam for tea, and half an hour before bedtime downstairs, and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays.

But the Captain could make him do anything...