He wanted her to disappear as quickly as possible before she caused him any trouble.
The girl lifted her head slightly to look toward him.
Her eyes were still dripping tears as she continued to sob while pushing out some words. "Um... my mum... next door.... uuuu.... she left me... she has not come back... It has been..."
She could not finish her words as she began to cry once more, but the message that she wished to convey was quite clear.
The girl was a child of the woman whom Jack had seen entering the room previously.
He did not see the woman entering with anyone else, but it was possible that he could have missed it due to their smaller size.
He did not hear a lot of noise coming from inside the room, so he believed that it was empty, but the girl might have been inside.
If she wasn't making any noise, then she might have been keeping herself occupied for quite some time, whether reading or sitting in silence, doing something else.
