Even Lady Kathryn is as free as if she were a shop girl.

It is as you said before--there is no time to be curious and ask questions.

And even Dowie has been obliged to go to her cousin's widow whose husband has just been killed." Shaken, thrilled, exalted, Donal sat down again and talked to her.
Together they made their plans for meeting, as they had done when Andrews had slackened her guard.

There was no guard to keep watch on them now.

And the tide rose hour by hour..