Nine o’clock
I know that Miss Milroy , and nobody but Miss Milroy has utterly ruined my prospect of becoming Mrs. Armadale of Thorpe Ambrose , and I care to know nothing more . If her mother was really alone in the attempt to expose my false reference , her mother seems to be suffering for it , at any rate . And so good-by to Mrs. Milroy ; and Heaven defend me from any more last glimpses at the cottages seen through the medium of my landlady 's spectacles ! '' `` Nine o'clock . -- Bashwood has just left me , having come with news from the great house . Pedgift the younger has made his attempt at bringing about a reconciliation this very day , and has failed . I am the sole cause of the failure .