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Then he got up and gave the housekeeper instructions to pack up his portmanteau , and the groom orders to bring his gig to the door . `` He was going away , '' he said , and his letters were to be addressed to his club in London . That afternoon he drove himself into Salisbury that he might catch the evening express train up , and that night he slept at a hotel in London . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- It was considerably past one o'clock , and the children 's dinner was upon the table in the dining parlour before anyone in the vicarage had seen Mary Lowther since the departure of the Squire . When she left Mr. Gilmore , she had gone to her own room , and no one had disturbed her . As the children were being seated , Fenwick returned , and his wife put into his hand the note which Gilmore had left for her . `` What passed between them ? ''