seven o'clock in the morning
I will write to Janet Fenwick . I know that she is your friend . '' Then Mr. Gilmore left the house , descended the hill without seeing Mary , packed up his things , and returned by the night train to Westbury . At seven o'clock in the morning he reached home in a Westbury gig , very cold , but upon the whole , a much more comfortable man than when he had left it . He had almost brought himself to think that even yet he would succeed at last . Christmas came , and a month beyond Christmas , and by the end of January Captain Marrable and Miss Lowther had agreed to regard all their autumn work as null and void , -- to look back upon the love-making as a thing that had not been , and to part as friends . Both of them suffered much in this arrangement , -- the man being the louder in the objurgations which he made against his ill-fortune , and in his assurances to himself and others that he was ruined for life .