six o’clock
-- My experience of Miss Milroy 's habits suggested a suspicion to me last night which I thought it desirable to clear up this morning . `` It was always her way , when I was at the cottage , to take a walk early in the morning before breakfast . Considering that I used often to choose that very time for _ my _ private meetings with Armadale , it struck me as likely that my former pupil might be taking a leaf out of my book , and that I might make some desirable discoveries if I turned my steps in the direction of the major 's garden at the right hour . I deprived myself of my Drops , to make sure of waking ; passed a miserable night in consequence ; and was ready enough to get up at six o'clock , and walk the distance from my lodgings to the cottage in the fresh morning air . `` I had not been five minutes on the park side of the garden inclosure before I saw her come out . `` She seemed to have had a bad night too ; her eyes were heavy and red , and her lips and cheeks looked swollen as if she had been crying . There was something on her mind , evidently ; something , as it soon appeared , to take her out of the garden into the park .