I only guessed.

Where are they gone ?" "I do not know.

Mrs.Costello said their plans were so uncertain that she could not tell me." "Yet I should have thought, sir, that so old a friend as you might have had a right to be told what her plans were ?" "She told no one--except that they would not stay long in any one place at present." Maurice walked to the window and sighed impatiently.
"A pleasant prospect!" he said, "They may be at the other end of Europe before I can get back." He stood for a minute looking out, and tapping impatiently with his fingers on the window-sill, while Mr.Leigh watched him, troubled, and a little inclined to be angry.

When he turned round again he had made up his mind that it was no use to get out of temper, a pretty sure proof that he was so already, and that the first thing to do was to find out exactly what his father and everybody else knew about the Costellos.

He sat down, accordingly, with a sort of desperate impatient patience, and began a cross-examination.
"Did they leave no message for me ?" "Nothing in particular.