five minutes past four
He incurred the risk of appearing to run away ; but that mattered little . Sibyl could hardly return before her mother 's burial , and by going yonder to see her he escaped the worse danger , probably the certainty , of arrest before any possible meeting with her in London . Dreading this more than ever , he made ready in a few minutes ; the telegraph boy had hardly left the building before Hugh followed . A glance at the timetables had shown him that , if he travelled by the Great-Western , he could reach Weymouth at five minutes past four ; whereas the first train he could catch at Waterloo would not bring him to his destination until half an hour later ; on the other hand , he could get away from London by the South-Western forty minutes sooner than by the other line , and this decided him . Yesterday , Waterloo had been merely the more convenient station on account of his business in town ; today he chose it because he had to evade arrest on a charge of homicide . So comforted was he by the news from Sibyl , that he could reflect on this joke of destiny , and grimly smile at it . At the end of his journey he betook himself to an hotel , and immediately sent a message to Sibyl .