five o'clock
Three o'clock came in due course , but no Hilda . Philip was seriously disturbed ; but there was now no train by which she could arrive that day , so he was forced to the conclusion that she had postponed her departure . There were now two things to be done , one to follow her down to where she was staying -- for he had ascertained her address from Mrs. Jacobs ; the other , to return home and come back on the morrow . For reasons which appeared to him imperative , but which need not be entered into here , he decided on the latter course ; so leaving a note for his wife , he drove , in a very bad temper , back to Paddington in time to catch the five o'clock train to Roxham . Let us now return to the Abbey House , where , whilst Philip was cooling his heels in Lincoln 's Inn Fields , a rather curious scene was in progress . At one o'clock , old Mr. Caresfoot , as was his rule , sat down to lunch , which , frugal as it was , so far as he was concerned , was yet served with some old-fashioned ceremony by a butler and a footman . Just as the meal was coming to an end , a fly , with some luggage on it , drove up to the hall-door .