about eleven o’clock
Mr. Wyvern was addicted to night-rambling , and he often covered considerable stretches of country in the hours when other mortals slept . To-night he was in the mood for such exercise ; it worked off unwholesome accumulations of thought and feeling , and good counsel often came to him in what the Greeks called the kindly time . He did not hurry on his way back to Wanley , for just at present he was much in need of calm reflection . On his arrival at the Vicarage about eleven o'clock the servant informed him of Miss Waltham 's having called . Mr. Wyvern heard this with pleasure . He thought at first of writing a note to Adela , begging her to come to the Vicarage again , but by the morning he had decided to be himself the visitor . He gathered at once from Mrs. Waltham 's face that events of some agitating kind were in progress .