about one in the morning
Upon this news , she immediately sent for the parson out of the parlour . Adams , when he found her resolute to go -LRB- though she would not own the reason , but pretended she could not bear to see the faces of those who had suspected her of such a crime -RRB- , was as fully determined to go with her ; he accordingly took leave of the justice and company : and so ended a dispute in which the law seemed shamefully to intend to set a magistrate and a divine together by the ears . _ A very delightful adventure , as well to the persons concerned as to the good-natured reader . _ Adams , Fanny , and the guide , set out together about one in the morning , the moon being then just risen . They had not gone above a mile before a most violent storm of rain obliged them to take shelter in an inn , or rather alehouse , where Adams immediately procured himself a good fire , a toast and ale , and a pipe , and began to smoke with great content , utterly forgetting everything that had happened . Fanny sat likewise down by the fire ; but was much more impatient at the storm . She presently engaged the eyes of the host , his wife , the maid of the house , and the young fellow who was their guide ; they all conceived they had never seen anything half so handsome ; and indeed , reader , if thou art of an amorous hue , I advise thee to skip over the next paragraph ; which , to render our history perfect , we are obliged to set down , humbly hoping that we may escape the fate of Pygmalion ; for if it should happen to us , or to thee , to be struck with this picture , we should be perhaps in as helpless a condition as Narcissus , and might say to ourselves , _ Quod petis est nusquam _ .