7 p.m.
`` Certainly , miss ; -- only you 'll do it to-night . '' `` Yes ; -- at once . As soon after I get there as possible . '' Miss Stanbury perfectly understood that Martha was to come back by the train reaching Exeter at 7 p.m. , and that she might be expected in the Close about a quarter-of-an-hour after that time . She had been nervous and anxious all day , -- so much so that Mr. Martin had told her that she must be very careful . `` That 's all very well , '' the old woman had said , `` but you have n't got any medicine for my complaint , Mr. Martin . '' The apothecary had assured her that the worst of her complaint was in the east wind , and had gone away begging her to be very careful .