four o'clock
His faith in his own keenness of intellect and unscrupulousness of tongue was unbounded . He smiled when he read Anna Agar 's letter over a dainty breakfast at his club the next morning . The cunning of it was obvious to his cunning comprehension , and the fact of her suppressing her newly-acquired surname only convinced him that she knew but little about himself . That same evening at four o'clock he presented himself at the lordly hall-door of Mr. Hethbridge . Since first he had raised his hand to this knocker , fingering his letter of introduction to the East India director , Seymour Michael had learnt many things , but the knowledge was not yet his that indiscriminate untruths are apt to fly home to roost . Anna Agar had easily managed to send her mother out of the house ; her husband spent his days as far from Clapham as circumstances would allow . She was seated on a sofa at the far end of the room when Seymour Michael was shown in , and the first thing that struck her was his diminutiveness .