five o'clock
To be always down before her husband for eight-o'clock breakfast ; to sit with Edith from twelve till luncheon time , and in the early afternoon ; to spend her evenings with her husband , reading aloud or talking , or sitting silent when silence soothed him ; these things had become more sacred and imperative than her attendance at St. Saviour 's . The hours of even-song struck for her no more . For , above all , she had made a point of always being at home in time for Majendie 's return from his office . At five o'clock she was ready for him , beside her tea-table , irreproachably dressed . Her friends complained that they had lost sight of her . Regularly at a quarter to five she would forsake the drawing-rooms of Thurston Square . However absorbing Mrs. Eliott 's conversation , towards the quarter , the tender abstraction of Anne 's manner showed plainly that her spirit had surrendered to another charm .