a few minutes before
four o'clock
She had knocked about with her father for several years since . Of course she ought not to have encouraged Mark 's visits night after night , as doubtless she had done ; but , then , she may have had the intelligence to see that Mark was a man in a thousand -- in a thousand ! Mark was a man in a million ! In the end Carrissima left Grandison Square at a few minutes before four o'clock that afternoon , and having rung the bell at Number 5 , Golfney Place , she was crushed to hear from Miller that Bridget had been out since a quarter to twelve . `` Oh ! '' said Carrissima , ashamed of her own artfulness , `` I suppose she went with Colonel Faversham ? '' `` Yes , '' returned Miller .