midday
on the first of May
And , out of all this walking and thinking , there emerged , after an hour of stupor , that it would be a misnomer to call sleep , two fixed results . The first of these was that he hated his father as a lost soul must hate its torturing demon , blindly , madly , impotently hated him ; and the second , that he could no longer delay taking his wife into his confidence . Then he remembered the letter he had received from her on the previous morning . He got it , and saw that it bore no address , merely stating that she would be in London by midday on the first of May , that was on the morrow . Till then it was clear he must wait , and he was not sorry for the reprieve . His was not a pleasant story for a husband to have to tell . Fortunately for Philip , there was an engagement of long standing for this day , the thirtieth of April , to go , in conjunction with other persons , to effect a valuation of the fallows , & c. , of a large tenant who was going out at Michaelmas .