one o'clock
So was passed the first evening after our Griselda had left the Cedars . The next day she sat at home doing nothing , -- still talking to Hannah Protheroe , and thinking that perhaps John Ball might come . But he did not come . She dined downstairs , at one o'clock , in the same room behind the kitchen , and then she had tea at six . But as Hannah intimated that perhaps a gentleman friend would look in during the evening , she was obliged to betake herself , after tea , to the solitude of her own room . As Hannah was between fifty and sixty , and nearer the latter age than the former , there could be no objection to her receiving what visitors she pleased . The third day passed with Miss Mackenzie the same as the second , and still no cousin came to see her .