seven o’clock
said Dare . Power looked at his watch . ` One , two , three , four hours , ' he said . ` I leave Markton by the seven o'clock train this evening . ' ` And if I meet your proposal with a negative ? ' ` I shall go at once to my niece and tell her the whole circumstances -- tell her that , by marrying Sir William , she allies herself with an unhappy gentleman in the power of a criminal son who makes his life a burden to him by perpetual demands upon his purse ; who will increase those demands with his accession to wealth , threaten to degrade her by exposing her husband 's antecedents if she opposes his extortions , and who will make her miserable by letting her know that her old lover was shamefully victimized by a youth she is bound to screen out of respect to her husband 's feelings . Now a man does not care to let his own flesh and blood incur the danger of such anguish as that , and I shall do what I say to prevent it .