five o’clock
She would be obliged some day to look once more into Cynthia Clarke 's earnest and distressed eyes . When that happened would she hate herself very much for what she had done ? She had often wondered . She wondered now , as she read the note written in her friend 's large upright hand , as she wrote a brief answer to say she would be in after five o'clock that day . She was troubled by the fact that her visit to Liverpool had not yielded the result she had hoped for . Rosamund Leith had not sought her husband . But she had taken off the sister 's dress and had given up living in the north .