ten o'clock until
two
But knowing all I now do , I hold a different conclusion -- and so , I think , will you . In the morning Mark Wylder was early upon the ground . He had quite slept off what he would have called the nonsense of last night , and was very keen upon settlements , consols , mortgages , jointures , and all that dry but momentous lore . I find a note in my diary of that day : -- ` From half-past ten o'clock until two with Mark Wylder and Mr. Larkin , the lawyer , in the study -- dull work -- over papers and title -- Lord Chelford with us now and then to lend a helping hand . ' Lawyer Larkin , though he made our work lighter -- for he was clear , quick , and orderly , and could lay his hand on any paper in those tin walls of legal manuscripts that built up two sides of his office -- did not make our business , to me at least , any pleasanter . Wylder thought him a clever man -LRB- and so perhaps , in a certain sense , he was -RRB- ; Lord Chelford , a most honourable one ; yet there came to me by instinct an unpleasant feeling about him . It was not in any defined way -- I did not fancy that he was machinating , for instance , any sort of mischief in the business before us -- but I had a notion that he was not quite what he pretended .