eleven o'clock
At length the eighth of June arrived . Months before , he had settled what his programme should be on that day . His promise , as the reader may remember , forbade him to see Angela till the ninth , that is , at any hour after twelve on the night of the eighth , or , practically , as early as possible on the following morning . Now the earliest train would not get him down to Roxham till eleven o'clock , which would involve a wicked waste of four or five hours of daylight that might be spent with Angela , so he wisely resolved to start on the evening of the eighth , by a train leaving Paddington at six o'clock , and reaching Roxham at nine . The day he spent in signing the settlements , finally interviewing the florist , and giving him directions as to forwarding the wedding - bouquet , which was to be composed of orange-blossoms , lilies of the valley , and stephanois , and in getting the marriage-license . But , notwithstanding these manifold employments , he managed to be three - quarters of an hour before his train , the longest forty-five minutes he ever spent . He had written to the proprietor of the inn at Rewtham , where he had slept a year ago the night after he had left Isleworth , to send a gig to meet him at the station , and , on arriving at Roxham , a porter told him that a trap was waiting for him .