To call upon her at the house would be only his last resource.
He felt assured that she had not spoken to her parents of the scene in the garden; several reasons supported this belief, especially the reflection that Emily would desire to spare her father the anxieties of a difficult position.

Taking this for granted, his relations with her must still be kept secret in order to avoid risking his impunity in the tactics he counted upon.

His hope was that she would leave the house alone in the course of the morning.
It has been mentioned that a railway bridge crossed the road a short distance beyond the Hoods' house.

On the embankment beyond this bridge, twenty or thirty yards from the road, was a cluster of small trees and shrubs, railed in from the grass which elsewhere grew upon the slope, and from the field at its foot.

Here, just hidden behind a hawthorn bush and a climbing bramble, Dagworthy placed himself shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday morning, having approached the spot by a long circuit of trespass; from this position he had a complete view of the house he wished to watch.