one o'clock
`` And you think I 'd better not tell her about Laurie ? '' `` I 'm sure it 's best not , '' said the girl , `` or she 'll tell him about Deep Breathing , or saying Om , or something . No ; I should let Laurie alone . '' * * * * * It was a little before one o'clock that the motor arrived , and that there descended from it at the iron gate a tall , slender woman , hooded and veiled , who walked up the little path , observed by Maggie from her bedroom , with a kind of whisking step . The motor moved on , wheeled in through the gates at the left , and sank into silence in the stable-yard . `` It 's too charming of you , dear Mrs. Baxter , '' Maggie heard as she came into the drawing-room a minute or two later , `` to let me come over like this . I 've heard so much about this house .