nine o'clock
They were only four at dinner . Mr. Logger and Dora Meadows made up the quartette , and as she was tired with her journey , and the conversation both at table and in the drawing-room was literary and political , she was thankful to be dismissed to her room at an early hour . It was difficult to believe that she was actually within two miles of home . She could see nothing from her window for the night-dews , and she woke on Sunday morning to a thick Forest mist ; but by nine o'clock it had cleared , and it was a sumptuous day . She was full of happy excitement , and proposed to set off betimes and walk to church . Lady Latimer , in her most complacent humor , bade her do exactly what she liked : there was Dora to accompany her if she walked , or there was room in the carriage that would convey herself and Mr. Logger . The young ladies preferred to walk .