Later, on his non-appearance, he amended this statement, suggesting out of the depths of a fertile imagination, that he had sailed down to Northwold, where he meant to pass the night.

Therefore, although the cook, a far-seeing woman who knew her Thomas and hated him, had experienced pangs of doubt, nobody else troubled the least, and even the small community of Monksland remained profoundly undisturbed as to the fate of one of its principal inhabitants.
So little is an unsympathetic world concerned in our greatest and most particular adventures! A birth, a marriage, an inquest, a scandal--these move it superficially, for the rest it has no enthusiasm to spare.

This cold neglect of events which had seemed to him so important reacted upon Morris, who, now that he had got over his chill and fatigue, saw them in their proper proportions.

A little adventure in an open boat at sea which had ended without any mishap, was not remarkable, and might even be made to appear ridiculous.

So the less said about it, especially to Mary, whose wit he feared, the better.
When dinner was finished Stella left the room, passing down its shadowed recesses with a peculiar grace of which even her limp could not rob her.
Ten minutes later, while Morris sat sipping a glass of claret, the nurse came down to tell him that Mr.Fregelius would like to see him if he were disengaged.