four o’clock
After the 1st , I should have to leave you , but as soon as Keith is well enough to bear the journey , he wishes to return to Edinburgh , where he would be kindly attended to by Alick and Rachel all the winter . There , Ermine , your victory is come , your consent has been entreated at last by my brother , not for my sake , but as a personal favour to himself , because there is no woman in the world of whom he thinks so highly . For myself I say little . I grieve that you should be thus hurried and fluttered , and if Ailie thinks it would harm you , she must telegraph back to me not to come down , and I will try to teach myself patience by preaching it to Keith , but otherwise you will see me by four o'clock to-morrow . Every time I hear Rachel 's name , I think it ought to have been yours , and surely in this fourteenth year , lesser objections may give way . But persuasions are out of the question , you must be entirely led by your own feeling . If I could have seen you in July , this should not have come so suddenly at last .