one o'clock
`` Come whenever you feel you would like to , '' Cecily answered , rousing herself from reverie . The house in which Mrs. Travis now lived was a quarter of an hour 's drive beyond that of the Elgars ; she would have alighted and walked , making nothing of it , but of course Cecily could not allow this . The coachman was directed to make the circuit . When Cecily reached home , it was after one o'clock . The house was in Belsize Park . Light shone through the blind of one of the upper windows , but the rest of the front was lifeless . Cecily 's ring at the bell sounded distinctly ; it was answered at once by a maid-servant , who said that Mr. Elgar was still in the library .