night about seven o'clock
`` I can easily understand that when once she has broken through her reserve with me , or suffered you to break through it for her , she will be able better to bear the full disclosure , from having part of the weight already removed from her heart . '' `` That 's just my view , '' said Bradly , `` and I 've told her so more than once . I 'm sure she 'll feel lighter in her heart when once she has fully made up her mind that you shall know all , even before you 've heard a word of her story ; and I 'm sure she sees it so now herself . So , if it wo n't be troubling you too much to ask you to step over to our house to - morrow night about seven o'clock , unless I send you back word , we 'll have the best parlour all to ourselves , and I believe the Lord will make it a blessed night for poor Jane and for us all . '' `` It shall be so then , Thomas , '' replied the vicar . `` I will , if spared , be at your house at seven o'clock , unless I hear anything meanwhile to the contrary from yourself . '' It was with a feeling of deep interest , and a fervent prayer for a blessing , that Ernest Maltby knocked the next evening at the door of Thomas Bradly 's quiet dwelling .