ten o'clock at night in November
`` You 've missed your connection at Turnhill -- that 's a certainty . I 'm very sorry . '' Obviously there was only one course open to a gallant man whose clock was to blame : namely , to accompany Eva Harracles to Turnhill by car , to accompany her on foot to Silverhays , then to walk back to Turnhill and come home again by car . A young woman could not be expected to perform that bleak and perhaps dangerous journey from Turnhill to Silverhays alone after ten o'clock at night in November . Such was the clear course . But he dared scarcely suggest it . He dared scarcely suggest it because of his sister .