She went up-stairs to try on some new weeds for the seaside, and then I bolted." She did not say a word about George; nor during those three days, nor for some days afterwards, did George show himself.

As it turned out afterwards, he had gone off to Scotland, and had remained a week among the grouse.
Thus, at least, he had accounted for himself and his movements; but all George Vavasor's friends knew that his goings out and comings in were seldom accounted for openly like those of other men.
It will perhaps be as well to say a few words about Mrs Greenow before we go with her to Yarmouth.

Mrs Greenow was the only daughter and the youngest child of the old squire at Vavasor Hall.

She was just ten years younger than her brother John, and I am inclined to think that she was almost justified in her repeated assertion that the difference was much greater than ten years, by the freshness of her colour, and by the general juvenility of her appearance.

She certainly did not look forty, and who can expect a woman to proclaim herself to be older than her looks?
In early life she had been taken from her father's house, and had lived with relatives in one of the large towns in the north of England.