about seven in the evening
I charge you , Jack , if you would save his life , that you send him not back empty-handed . When I concluded my last , I hoped that my next attendance upon this surprising lady would furnish me with some particulars as agreeable as now could be hoped for from the declining way she is in , by reason of the welcome letter she had received from her cousin Morden . But it proved quite otherwise to me , though not to herself ; for I think I was never more shocked in my life than on the occasion I shall mention presently . When I attended her about seven in the evening , she told me that she found herself in a very petulant way after I had left her . Strange , said she , that the pleasure I received from my cousin 's letter should have such an effect upon me ! But I could not help giving way to a comparative humour , as I may call it , and to think it very hard that my nearer relations did not take the methods which my cousin Morden kindly took , by inquiring into my merit or demerit , and giving my cause a fair audit before they proceeded to condemnation . She had hardly said this , when she started , and a blush overspread her sweet face , on hearing , as I also did , a sort of lumbering noise upon the stairs , as if a large trunk were bringing up between two people : and , looking upon me with an eye of concern , Blunderers !