Three o’clock
A persuasion has taken possession of my mind that the smooth and prosperous course of my affairs since I have been in London is too smooth and prosperous to last . There is something oppressing me to-night , which is more than the oppression of the heavy London air . '' `` August 2d . -- Three o'clock . -- My presentiments , like other people 's , have deceived me often enough ; but I am almost afraid that my presentiment of last night was really prophetic , for once in a way . `` I went after breakfast to a milliner 's in this neighborhood to order a few cheap summer things , and thence to Midwinter 's hotel to arrange with him for another day in the country . I drove to the milliner 's and to the hotel , and part of the way back .