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o'clock
`` When we made that arrangement , '' said his wife , going down the steps , `` we did not know our individual selves ; now we do , and the case is different . Kate will understand all that when I explain it to her . '' They drove back to the station , and took a train for home . Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst were sitting in the cool library about nine o'clock that evening ; he was reading while she was listening , and they were greatly astonished when they heard a carriage drive up to the front door . During their domestic honey-moon they had received no visitors , and they looked at each other and wondered . `` It is a mistake , '' said he ; `` but do n't trouble yourself . Mary has not gone to bed , and she will hear the bell . ''