Six in the evening
Her brother , without letting her family know the secret , educated the infant , as the daughter of a younger brother who had been just before killed in a duel in France ; her parents , who died in a few years , were , almost in their last moments , informed of these circumstances , and made a small provision for the child . In the mean time , Colonel Willmott , after experiencing a great variety of misfortunes for many years , during which he maintained a constant correspondence with his brother-in-law , and with no other person in Europe , by a train of lucky accidents , acquired very rapidly a considerable fortune , with which he resolved to return to England , and marry his daughter to me , as the only method to discharge fully his obligations to my grandfather , who alone , of all his family , had given him the least assistance when he left England . He wrote to his daughter , letting her know his design , and directing her to meet him in London ; but she is not yet arrived . Six in the evening . My mother and Emily went to Temple 's to dinner ; they are to dress there , and I am to be surprized . Colonel Willmott is come : he is an extreme handsome man ; tall , well-made , with an air of dignity which one seldom sees ; he is very brown , and , what will please Bell , has an aquiline nose : he looks about fifty , but is not so much ; change of climate has almost always the disagreable effect of adding some years to the look . He is dressing , to accompany me to the masquerade ; I must attend him : I have only time to say , I am yours , Ed .