three o'clock
`` God bless her for loving me , '' said Adam , as he went on his way to work again , with Gyp at his heels . But Hetty 's tears were not for Adam -- not for the anguish that would come upon him when he found she was gone from him for ever . They were for the misery of her own lot , which took her away from this brave tender man who offered up his whole life to her , and threw her , a poor helpless suppliant , on the man who would think it a misfortune that she was obliged to cling to him . At three o'clock that day , when Hetty was on the coach that was to take her , they said , to Leicester -- part of the long , long way to Windsor -- she felt dimly that she might be travelling all this weary journey towards the beginning of new misery . Yet Arthur was at Windsor ; he would surely not be angry with her . If he did not mind about her as he used to do , he had promised to be good to her . The Journey of Hope A LONG , lonely journey , with sadness in the heart ; away from the familiar to the strange : that is a hard and dreary thing even to the rich , the strong , the instructed ; a hard thing , even when we are called by duty , not urged by dread .