about a quarter to four
o'clock
She resolved to go the very next afternoon , but without telling any one of her plan . Accordingly she looked out the Sunday clothes she had never before had the heart to unpack since she came to Manchester , but which she now desired to appear in , in order to do credit to Will . She put on her old-fashioned black mode bonnet , trimmed with real lace ; her scarlet cloth cloak , which she had had ever since she was married ; and , always spotlessly clean , she set forth on her unauthorised embassy . She knew the Palmers lived in Crown Street , though where she had heard it she could not tell ; and modestly asking her way , she arrived in the street about a quarter to four o'clock . She stopped to enquire the exact number , and the woman whom she addressed told her that Susan Palmer 's school would not be loosed till four , and asked her to step in and wait until then at her house . `` For , '' said she , smiling , `` them that wants Susan Palmer wants a kind friend of ours ; so we , in a manner , call cousins . Sit down , missus , sit down .