He did not choose to say, "Because I knew Sibylla West was to be there;" but that would have been the true answer.

"I had nothing particular to do with my evening, so I went up," he said aloud.
"Mr.Bitterworth was out.

Mrs.Bitterworth thought he had gone into Deerham." "Yes.

He was at Deerham when the alarm was given, and hastened on here.
Sibylla West was there, was she not ?" "She was there," said Lionel.

"She had promised to be home early; and, as no one came for her, I saw her home.