seven o'clock
Denas was reading the letter , and softly smiling as she uttered the careless words . For indeed affairs were at a point now where Priscilla 's interference would hurt herself more than others . The note was , of course , from Roland . It told her that all was ready , and that the weather being so bad as to render walking very tiresome and miserable , he had engaged a carriage which would be waiting for her on the west side of the parish church at seven o'clock that night ; and her lover would be waiting with it , and if Roland was to be believed , everything joyful and marvellous was waiting also . This letter was the only sunshine throughout the day . Priscilla 's bad temper was in the ascendant , both in the shop and in the workroom . She scolded Denas for working so slowly , she made her unrip whatever she did .