_He_ had left her.

She had no clue to his whereabouts; but, other people believed him to be living in another flat--not alone.
Drayton Parva was alive again with the scandal.

Miss Batchelor, as became the intelligence of Drayton Parva, alone kept calm.

She went about saying that she was not at all surprised to hear it.

Miss Batchelor never was surprised at anything.