two after noon
`` Domus et placens Uxor . '' FAIRTHORN FINDS NOTHING _ PLACENS _ IN THE _ UXOR _ , TO WHOM _ DOMUS _ IS INDEBTED FOR ITS DESTRUCTION . Another day ! Lionel is expected to arrive an hour or two after noon . Darrell is in his room -- his will once more before him . He has drawn up a rough copy of the codicil by which Fawley is to pass away , and the name of Darrell be consigned to the care of grateful Learning , linked with prizes and fellowships ; -- a public property -- lost for ever to private representatives of its sepulchred bearers . Preparations for departure from the doomed dwelling-house have begun .