six o’clock
Do n't take it as too personal , Ulick , for it was the name of our mutual connexion . ' ` I take the personal part though , Maurice ; and thank you , said Albinia , and Mr. Ferrars looked more happy and joyous than any time since his wife 's health had begun to fail . Always cheerful , and almost always taking matters up in the most lively point of view , it was only by comparison that want of spirits in him could be detected ; and it was chiefly by the vanishing of a certain careworn , anxious expression about his eyes , and by the ring of his merry laugh , that Albinia knew that he thought better of his wife 's state than for the last five or six years . Albinia and Ulick drove off at six o'clock on a lovely summer Sunday morning , with Maurice between them in a royal state of felicity . That long fresh drive , past summer hay-fields sleeping in their silver bath of dew , and villages tardily awakening to the well-earned Sunday rest , was not the least pleasant part of the day ; and yet it was completely happy , not even clouded by one outbreak of Master Maurice . Luckily for him , Mary had a small class , who absorbed her superabundant love of rule ; and little Alby was a fair-haired , apple-cheeked maiden of five , who awoke both admiration and chivalry , and managed to coquet with him and Ulick both at once , so that Willie had no disrespect to his sisters to resent . He was exemplary at church , well-behaved at dinner , and so little on his mamma 's mind , that she had a delightful renewal of her acquaintance with the Sunday-school , and a leisurable gossip with Mrs. Reid and the two Miss Reids , collectively and individually ; but the best of all was a long quiet tete-a-tete with Winifred .