seven o'clock
a question which minds more enlightened than that of Lizzie have often asked in vain . Lizzie had a tiresome argument with her grandmother that night , who could not understand why she should be so bent on going into Highcombe by the first train . To see Miss Chatty married , that was reasonable enough ; but Miss Chatty would not be married till eleven at the earliest , perhaps later . Mrs. Bagley knew that gentlefolks ran it almost too late , as late as was possible , which was the fashion , or else because they did n't like to get up so early as poor folks , -- and why should Lizzie start by the seven o'clock train ? But Lizzie was determined and got her way , declaring that she would stay up all night and do her work before she started sooner than not go . It would not have mattered much had she done so , for there was no sleep for Lizzie that night . She had not any certainty of being right to support her in what she was going to do .