five o'clock
This was the galling present and the dark future which had made so young and unsentimental a woman as Mary Wells think of suicide for a moment or two ; and it now deprived her of her rest , and next day kept her thinking and brooding all the time her now leaden limbs were carrying her through her menial duties . The afternoon was sunny , and Sir Charles and Lady Bassett took their usual walk . Mary Wells went a little way with them , looking very miserable . Lady Bassett observed , and said , kindly , `` Mary , you can give me that shawl ; I will not keep you ; go where you like till five o'clock . '' Mary never said so much as `` Thank you . '' She put the shawl round her mistress , and then went slowly back . She sat down on the stone steps , and glared stupidly at the scene , and felt very miserable and leaden .