two o'clock
On that occasion nothing more was said about it ; but Sir Thomas hoped within his heart that his wife was right in prophesying that his son would do nothing sudden in this matter . On the following morning young Fitzgerald gave the necessary orders at Berryhill very quickly , and then coming back remounted another horse without going into the house . Then he trotted off to Clady , passing the gate of Desmond Court without calling ; did what he had promised to do at Clady , or rather that which he had made to stand as an excuse for again visiting that part of the world so quickly ; and after that , with a conscience let us hope quite clear , rode up the avenue at Desmond Court . It was still early in the day when he got there , probably not much after two o'clock ; and yet Mary had been quite correct in foretelling that he would only be home just in time for dinner . But , nevertheless , he had not seen Lady Desmond . Why or how it had occurred that she had been absent from the drawing-room the whole of the two hours which he had passed in the house , it may be unnecessary to explain . Such , however , had been the fact .