His going up to London was no one's concern.

If he were starting for the Equator a telegram would have been a courtesy.

But why announce his arrival in London?
Why couple it with Emmy's?
And why in the name of guns and musical comedies should Zora worry?
But when she reflected that Septimus did nothing according to the orthodox ways of men, she attributed the superfluous message to his general infirmity of character, smiled indulgently, and dismissed the matter from her mind.

Mrs.Oldrieve had nothing to dismiss, as she had been led to believe that Emmy had gone up to London by the morning train.

She only bewailed the flighty inconsequence of modern young women, until she reflected that Emmy's father had gone and come with disconcerting unexpectedness from the day of their wedding to that of his death on the horns of a buffalo; whereupon she fatalistically attributed her daughter's ways to heredity.