They ask, Nora if she had seen him? He was jumping out the high window as many others crashed after him.
Stoke was always running from something or into something.
Nora was longing to be safe and secure and she was looking in the wrong places for that. 
She felt her mother closer and when she went to reach for her, she was not. Oh, how she misses her. 
That is why she travels, always looking for her muse just over the next horizon.