one o'clock
In the first place , Millicent will come downstairs this afternoon , and I should like to be in to meet her . Had it not been for that I might have come , as I can walk across the fields to the Rectory without passing through the village . There is another reason . I sent up yesterday by the coach a letter to be delivered at once by hand , and I expect a detective down here by one o'clock . I do n't know that he will do any good ; but at the same time it will give me something to do , and at present there is nothing I dread so much as sitting alone . Fortunately , yesterday evening Millicent went to bed at five o'clock , and Mrs. Cunningham sat with me all the evening , and her talk did me a great deal of good . '' The inquest occupied a very short time , the only point on which many questions were asked being as to the firing through the window .