about the hour of three in the afternoon
He had as much business in the moon as at Overhaddon , yet he told Dorothy he would be at the village every day , and she , it seemed , was only too willing to give him opportunities to transact his momentous affairs . As the floating cloud to the fathomless blue , as the seed to the earth , as the iron to the lodestone , so was Dorothy unto John . Thus you see our beautiful pitcher went to the well and was broken . The day after Dorothy 's first meeting with Manners at Overhaddon she was restless and nervous , and about the hour of three in the afternoon she mounted Dolcy and rode toward Bakewell . That direction , I was sure , she took for the purpose of misleading us at the Hall , and I felt confident she would , when once out of sight , head her mare straight for Overhaddon . Within an hour Dorothy was home again , and very ill-tempered . The next day she rode out in the morning .