ten o’clock
With Sir Patrick 's pens and Sir Patrick 's paper they produced a letter of instructions , deliberately reopening the investigation which Sir Patrick 's superior wisdom had closed . Neither pains nor money were to be spared by the lawyer in at once taking measures -LRB- beginning at Glasgow -RRB- to find Anne . The report of the result was to be addressed to Arnold , under cover to Sir Patrick at Ham Farm . By the time the letter was completed the morning had advanced to ten o'clock . Blanche left Arnold to array herself in her bridal splendor -- after another outrage on propriety , and more consequences of free institutions . The next proceedings were of a public and avowable nature , and strictly followed the customary precedents on such occasions . Village nymphs strewed flowers on the path to the church door -LRB- and sent in the bill the same day -RRB- .