eleven o'clock in the
morning
Middle day came and went ; afternoon came and went ; evening came -- and he had not come . Miss Hautley would have set the telegraph to work , had she known where to set it to . But good luck was in store for her . A train , arriving between six and seven , brought him ; and his carriage -- the carriage of his late father , which had been waiting at the station since eleven o'clock in the morning -- conveyed him home . Very considerably astonished was Sir Edmund to find the programme which had been carved out for the night 's amusement . He did not like it ; it jarred upon his sense of propriety ; and he spoke a hint of this to Miss Hautley . It was the death of his father which had called him home ; a father with whom he had lived for the last few years of his life upon terms of estrangement -- at any rate , upon one point ; was it seemly that his inauguration should be one of gaiety ?