5 P.M.
Though gratified , Mrs. Murrell demurred , lest it might be taken ill by the ` family ' and by that godly minister whose kindness and sympathy at the time of Edna 's evasion had made a deep impression ; but Lucilla boldly undertook that the family _ must _ like it , and she would take care of the minister . Nor was the good woman insensible to the posthumous triumph over calumny , although still with a certain hankering after Kensal Green as a sweet place , with pious monuments , where she should herself be laid , and the Company that did things so reasonable and so handsome . Lucilla hurried back to fulfil the mission of Nemesis to the Charterises , which she called justice to Edna , and by the nine o'clock post despatched three notes . One containing the notice for the _ Times _ -- ` On the 17th instant , at 8 , Little Whittington-street , St. Wulstan 's , Edna , the beloved wife of Owen Charteris Sandbrook , Esq. ; ' another was to order a complete array of mourning from her dressmaker ; and the third was to the Reverend Peter Prendergast , in the most simple manner requesting him to arrange for the burial of her sister-in-law , at 5 P.M. on the ensuing Saturday , indicating the labourers who should act as bearers , and ending with , ` You will be relieved by hearing that she was no other than our dear Edna , married on the 14th of July , last year . ' She then beguiled the time with designs for gravestones , until she became uneasy at Owen 's non-appearance , and longed to go and see after him ; but she fancied he might have spent nights of watching , and thought sleep would be the best means of getting through the interval which appalled her mind , unused to contact with grief . Still his delay began to wear her spirits and expectation , so long wrought up to the meeting ; and she was at least equally restless for the appearance of Robert , wanting to hear more from him , and above all certain that all her dreary cravings and vacancy would be appeased by one dialogue with him , on whatever topic it might be . She wished that she had obeyed that morning bell at St. Wulstan 's .