six o'clock
You can contrive to amuse the child for this afternoon , I dare say . I have some business to settle , and sha 'n' t be able to take him out . I shall sleep here to-night . Good-by , Georgey ; take care of yourself and try and get your appetite in order against six o'clock . '' Robert Audley left the boy in charge of the idle waiter , and strolled down to the water side , choosing that lonely bank which leads away under the moldering walls of the town toward the little villages beside the narrowing river . He had purposely avoided the society of the child , and he walked through the light drifting snow till the early darkness closed upon him . He went back to the town , and made inquiries at the station about the trains for Dorsetshire .