TWO:He felt Caro's disappearance more acutely than he would allow to show. First, she had left him badly in the lurch in household matters��he had to engage a woman to take her place, and pay her wages. Also she had caused a scandal in the neighbourhood, which meant more derisive fingers pointed at Odiam. Pete was now the only one left of his original family��his children and their runnings-away had become a byword in Peasmarsh.Father John bowed.
TWO:"Hold your tongue, woman," said Byles, jumping out of the bed into which he had thrown himself, and taking up the clothes, concealed them in the pit. "Do you want to have me hanged? To bed, I tell you."