two o’clock
_ My _ heart could n't have thumped much harder than it did now , if I had been five-and-twenty again ! `` I have no claim , my lady , '' says the Sergeant , `` to control Miss Verinder 's actions . All I can ask you to do is to put off her departure , if possible , till later in the day . I must go to Frizinghall myself tomorrow morning -- and I shall be back by two o'clock , if not before . If Miss Verinder can be kept here till that time , I should wish to say two words to her -- unexpectedly -- before she goes . '' My lady directed me to give the coachman her orders , that the carriage was not to come for Miss Rachel until two o'clock . `` Have you more to say ? ''