twenty minutes after four
`` Walk ! '' repeated Sir Thomas , in a tone of most unanswerable dignity , and coming farther into the room . `` My niece walk to a dinner engagement at this time of the year ! Will twenty minutes after four suit you ? '' `` Yes , sir , '' was Fanny 's humble answer , given with the feelings almost of a criminal towards Mrs. Norris ; and not bearing to remain with her in what might seem a state of triumph , she followed her uncle out of the room , having staid behind him only long enough to hear these words spoken in angry agitation -- `` Quite unnecessary ! a great deal too kind ! But Edmund goes ; true , it is upon Edmund 's account .