But no investigation on the spot could throw any clear light on the circumstance, and Shelley's friends, Hogg, Peacock, and Mr.Madocks, concurred in regarding the affair as a delusion.
There was no money in the common purse of the Shelleys at this moment.
In their distress they applied to Mr.T.Hookham, a London publisher, who sent them enough to carry them across the Irish channel.

After a short residence in 35, Cuffe Street, Dublin, and a flying visit to Killarney, they returned to London.

Eliza, for some reason as unexplained as the whole episode of this second visit to Ireland, was left behind for a short season.

The flight from Tanyrallt closes the first important period of Shelley's life; and his settlement in London marks the beginning of another, fruitful of the gravest consequences and decisive of his future..