Was it because he had become a manager, and governed the business during her father's frequent absences?
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
She did not cease her long absences from the house; but every one knew that on these occasions she was off on one of her solitary wanderings; and she came home in the evening apparently more contented than ever.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
Beaton did not go to the office during the week that followed upon this conclusion; but they were used there to these sudden absences of his, and, as his work for the time was in train, nothing was made of his staying away, except the sarcastic comment which the thought of him was apt to excite in the literary department.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells