Five o’clock
Was Eve fonder of Adam than ever , I wonder , after she had coaxed him into eating the apple ? I should have quite doted on him if I had been in her place . -LRB- Memorandum : To write Midwinter a charming little letter on my side , with a kiss in it ; and as time is allowed him before he sends in his answer , to ask for time , too , before I tell him whether I will or will not go abroad . -RRB- '' `` Five o'clock . -- A tiresome visit from my landlady ; eager for a little gossip , and full of news which she thinks will interest me . `` She is acquainted , I find , with Mrs. Milroy 's late nurse ; and she has been seeing her friend off at the station this afternoon . They talked , of course , of affairs at the cottage , and my name found its way into the conversation .