about nine o’clock
He could not have said anything in the world that pleased me better ; however , I knew that the way to secure him was to stand off while the thing was so remote , as it appeared to be , and that it was time enough to accept of it when he was able to perform it ; so I said very respectfully to him , it was time enough to consider of these things when he was in a condition to talk of them ; in the meantime , I told him , I was going a great way from him , and he would find objects enough to please him better . We broke off here for the present , and he made me promise him to come again the next day , for his resolutions upon my own business , which after some pressing I did ; though had he seen farther into me , I wanted no pressing on that account . I came the next evening , accordingly , and brought my maid with me , to let him see that I kept a maid , but I sent her away as soon as I was gone in . He would have had me let the maid have stayed , but I would not , but ordered her aloud to come for me again about nine o'clock . But he forbade that , and told me he would see me safe home , which , by the way , I was not very well pleased with , supposing he might do that to know where I lived and inquire into my character and circumstances . However , I ventured that , for all that the people there or thereabout knew of me , was to my advantage ; and all the character he had of me , after he had inquired , was that I was a woman of fortune , and that I was a very modest , sober body ; which , whether true or not in the main , yet you may see how necessary it is for all women who expect anything in the world , to preserve the character of their virtue , even when perhaps they may have sacrificed the thing itself . I found , and was not a little please with it , that he had provided a supper for me .