about one o'clock
I hope that it may be as you say ! '' `` It will be as I say , '' she answered , as she bent to kiss him . And they went on in silence . Philip arrived home about one o'clock on the Monday , and , after their nursery dinner , Arthur made his way to the study , and soon found himself in the dread presence -- for what presence is more dread -LRB- most people would rather face a chief-justice with the gout -RRB- -- of the man whose daughter he was about to ask in marriage . Philip , whom he found seated by a tray , the contents of which he seemed in no humour to touch , received him with his customary politeness , saying , with a smile , that he hoped he had not come to tell him that he was sick of the place and its inhabitants , and was going away . `` Far from it , Mr. Caresfoot , I come to speak to you on a very different subject . '' Philip glanced up with a quick look of expectant curiosity , but said nothing .