She sat bolt upright on a cane chair in her bedroom, praying to God with her eyes open; she was begging Him to let Tommy tell her where he was, and promising to return home at once if he did not need her.
Next morning they showed her, at his lodgings, two lines in a newspaper, which said that he was ill with bronchitis at the Hotel Krone, Bad-Platten, in Switzerland.
It may have been an answer to her prayer, as she thought, but we know now how the paragraph got into print.

On the previous evening the landlady had met Mr.Pym on the ladder of an omnibus, and told him, before they could be plucked apart, of the lady who knew that Mr.
Sandys was ill.

It must be bronchitis again.

Pym was much troubled; he knew that the Krone at Bad-Platten had been Tommy's destination.

He talked that day, and one of the company was a reporter, which accounts for the paragraph.
Grizel found out how she could get to Bad-Platten.