I will go and look for her in the grounds.' He went down, and, to avoid giving any alarm in the house, walked at once towards the Mosslands in search of Mr.Bates, whom he met returning from his breakfast.

To the gardener he confided his fear about Caterina, assigning as a reason for this fear the probability that the shock she had undergone yesterday had unhinged her mind, and begging him to send men in search of her through the gardens and park, and inquire if she had been seen at the lodges; and if she were not found or heard of in this way, to lose no time in dragging the waters round the Manor.
'God forbid it should be so, Bates, but we shall be the easier for having searched everywhere.' 'Troost to mae, troost to mae, Mr.Gilfil.

Eh! but I'd ha' worked for day-wage all the rest o' my life, rether than anythin' should ha' happened to her.' The good gardener, in deep distress, strode away to the stables that he might send the grooms on horseback through the park.
Mr.Gilfil's next thought was to search the Rookery: she might be haunting the scene of Captain Wybrow's death.

He went hastily over every mound, looked round every large tree, and followed every winding of the walks.

In reality he had little hope of finding her there; but the bare possibility fenced off for a time the fatal conviction that Caterina's body would be found in the water.