four o'clock
The bevy , with that glorious figure in the middle , seemed one glorious and rare flower . After the wedding , the breakfast ; and then the traveling carriage ; the four liveried postilions bedecked with favors . But the bride wept on Vizard 's neck ; and a light seemed to leave the house when she was gone . The carriages kept driving away one after another till four o'clock : and then Vizard sat disconsolate in his study , and felt very lonely . Yet a thing no bigger than a leaf sufficed to drive away this somber mood , a piece of amber-colored paper scribbled on with a pencil : a telegram from Ashmead : `` Good news : lost sheep turned up . Is now with her mother at Claridge 's Hotel . '' Then Vizard was in raptures .