five o'clock
The door was opened with what seemed to him a portentous celerity , and she disappeared . He turned away into the park , and wandered about , revolving many things , till by slow gradations the sky 's gray idea unfolded to a brilliant conviction , and , lo , there was the morning , not to be controverted ! But he took care to let the house not only come awake , but come to its senses , before he sought admission . When it seemed well astir , he rang the bell ; and when the door , after some delay , was opened , he went straight to the library , and was fairly at work by five o'clock . He saw nothing of Barbara all day , or indeed of any of the family except Vixen , who looked in , made a face at him , and went away , leaving the door open . At eight o'clock he had his breakfast , and at nine he was again in the library ; so that by lunch-time he had been seven of his eight hours at work , and by half-past two found himself free to go to his grandfather 's and inquire after Alice . On his way to the road through the park , he met Arthur Lestrange .