Perhaps he had come out with the express intention.

That part of the bank having rank grass growing on it, there was no difficulty in getting close, without any noise of footsteps: it was but to scramble up a ragged face of pretty hard mud some three or four feet high and come upon the grass and to the window.

He came to the window by that means.
She had no other light than the light of the fire.

The unkindled lamp stood on the table.

She sat on the ground, looking at the brazier, with her face leaning on her hand.