She could not go to the station, and did not venture even to wait anywhere in sight of the exit.

Whether any passenger had alighted must remain uncertain.

If Everard had arrived by this train, doubtless he would go to the hotel, which stood only a few yards from the line.

He would take a meal and presently come forth.
Having allowed half an hour to elapse, she dressed and walked shoreward.

Seascale has no street, no shops; only two or three short rows of houses irregularly placed on the rising ground above the beach.
To cross the intervening railway, Rhoda could either pass through the little station, in which case she would also pass the hotel and be observable from its chief windows, or descend by a longer road which led under a bridge, and in this way avoid the hotel altogether.