about ten o'clock
It is folly to follow a partial truth of which we miss the keynote , though we sometimes blunder on its harmonies . '' The arrangement for the morrow was that Angela and her father were to take a fly to Roxham , where the registry office was , and whither George was also to be conveyed in a close carriage ; that the ceremony was then to be gone through , after which the parties were to separate and return to their respective homes . Mr. Fraser had been asked to attend , but had excused himself from doing so . In pursuance of this programme , Angela and her father left the Abbey House about ten o'clock and drove in silence to the town . Strange as it may seem , Angela had never been in a town before , and , in the curious condition of her mind , the new sight of busy streets interested her greatly , and served to divert her attention till they reached the door of the office . She alighted and was shown with Philip into a waiting-room . And here , for some unexplained reason , a great fear took hold of her , a terror of this ceremony which now loomed large and life-like before her .