a few minutes after
eight o'clock
At the time she left me for him she thought she was quite within her right . Now she thinks otherwise . '' The next morning came , and the self-sacrifice of the woman on the altar of what she was pleased to call her principles was acquiesced in by these two friends , each from his own point of view . Phillotson went across to the Widow Edlin 's to fetch Sue a few minutes after eight o'clock . The fog of the previous day or two on the low-lands had travelled up here by now , and the trees on the green caught armfuls , and turned them into showers of big drops . The bride was waiting , ready ; bonnet and all on . She had never in her life looked so much like the lily her name connoted as she did in that pallid morning light .