Mrs.Crupp appeared to be a long way off.

I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
After two days and nights, I felt as if I had lived there for a year, and yet I was not an hour older, but was quite as much tormented by my own youthfulness as ever.
Steerforth not yet appearing, which induced me to apprehend that he must be ill, I left the Commons early on the third day, and walked out to Highgate.

Mrs.Steerforth was very glad to see me, and said that he had gone away with one of his Oxford friends to see another who lived near St.Albans, but that she expected him to return tomorrow.

I was so fond of him, that I felt quite jealous of his Oxford friends.
As she pressed me to stay to dinner, I remained, and I believe we talked about nothing but him all day.

I told her how much the people liked him at Yarmouth, and what a delightful companion he had been.