one o'clock
`` If you are not satisfied with my words , '' continued the writer -LRB- no doubt ironically , for where could he have found better evidence of the effect of his statement ? -RRB- , `` I will give you writing for the truth of what I have said to you . '' And rising and going towards a green tin box , he opened the same , and taking therefrom a piece of paper , he resumed his seat . `` Now listen , '' said he , as he unfolded an old yellow-coloured sheet of paper , and then he read these words : '' ` Your presence is requested at the funeral of Henrietta Preston , my wife , and of a child still-born , from my house , Meggat 's Land , Canongate , to the burying-ground at St. Cuthberts , on Friday the 19th of this month June , at one o'clock ; ' and the name at this letter , '' continued Mr. Dallas , `` is that of ` John Napier of Eastleys . ' Will that satisfy you ? '' And the `` doer '' for Mr. Charles Napier , conceiving that he had at last effectually `` done '' his client 's opponent , seemed well pleased to sit and witness the further effect of his evidence on the bewildered woman ; but we are to remember that a second stroke sometimes only takes away the pain of the former , and a repetition of blows will quicken the reaction which slumbered under the first . Whether this was so or not in our present instance , or whether Mrs. Hislop had recovered her wits by a process far shorter than that followed by the foresaid Astolpho , we know not ; but certain it is , that she recovered the powers of both her eyes and her tongue in much less time than the writer expected , and in a manner , too , very different from that for which he was probably prepared .