nine in the morning
Now I respect and love you , as you well know : but every now and then reason steps in and proves to me that I am seven years your senior -- which is absurd , and the absurder for the grave wise face you put upon it . So come along , sweet-and-twenty , and help me pack my buskins . '' Hetty led the way upstairs humming an air which -LRB- though her mother did not recognise it -RRB- was Purcell 's setting of a song in _ Twelfth Night _ : `` Journeys end in lovers meeting , Every wise man 's son doth know . '' On the day fixed , and at nine in the morning , Dick Ellison , who had promised to drive Hetty over to Kelstein , arrived with his gig . Sukey accompanied him , to join in the farewells and spend a few hours at the parsonage pending his return . Now these visits of Sukey 's were a trial to her no less than to her mother and sisters . She knew that they detested her husband , and -LRB- what was worse -RRB- she had enough of the Wesley in her to perceive why and how : nevertheless , being a Wesley , she kept a steady face on her pain .