The doctor went to the outside of the window, and looked in, he could see nothing but his own reflection in the mirror, and was completely puzzled.

But it was no time, he felt, for standing there scratching his head, when there was reason to fear that the girl had gone.

Gone where?
He saw his selfishness now, in a glaring light, and it fled out of him pursued by curses.
He stopped at Aaron's door and called for Tommy, but Tommy had left the house an hour ago.

"Gone with her, the sacket; he very likely put her up to this," the doctor muttered, and the surmise seemed justified when he heard that Grizel and Tommy had been seen passing the Fens.

That they were running away had never struck those who saw them, and McQueen said nothing of his suspicions, but off he went in his gig on their track and ran them down within a mile of Tilliedrum.