seven o'clock in the evening
There would have been nothing in this to have caused vexation , had it not been decided between Trevelyan and Mr. Outhouse that Mrs. Trevelyan was not to find a home at the parsonage . Mr. Outhouse was greatly afraid of being so entangled in the matter as to be driven to take the part of the wife against the husband ; and Mrs. Outhouse , though she was full of indignation against Trevelyan , was at the same time not free from anger in regard to her own niece . She more than once repeated that most unjust of all proverbs , which declares that there is never smoke without fire , and asserted broadly that she did not like to be with people who could not live at home , husbands with wives , and wives with husbands , in a decent , respectable manner . Nevertheless the preparations went on busily , and when the party arrived at seven o'clock in the evening , two rooms had been prepared close to each other , one for the two sisters , and the other for the child and nurse , although poor Mr. Outhouse himself was turned out of his own little chamber in order that the accommodation might be given . They were all very hot , very tired , and very dusty , when the cab reached the parsonage . There had been the preliminary drive from Nuncombe Putney to Lessboro ' . Then the railway journey from thence to the Waterloo Bridge Station had been long .