about six o'clock
You are sure to marry him ; you have a faithful heart , so the best thing for him will be to let you marry as soon as possible . I 'll tell him so as we walk to John Mortimer 's to-day . I 'll tell him he may do it as soon as he likes . '' Accordingly as about six o'clock he and Valentine walked through a wood , across a common , and then over some fields , Brandon began to make some remarks concerning the frequent letters that passed between these youthful lovers . `` It is not to be supposed , '' he observed , `` that any lady would correspond with you thus for years if she had not fully made up her mind to accept you in the end . '' `` No , '' answered Valentine with perfect confidence ; `` but she knows that I promised my father to wait a few months more before I decidedly engaged myself , but for that promise I was to have had an answer from her half a year ago . '' Brandon fully believed that Dorothea Graham loved his brother , and that her happiness was in his own hands .