about six o'clock
Of all this Emily herself felt much , -- but felt at the same time that she would never pardon herself if she betrayed her love by a gleam of her eye , by the tone of a word , or the movement of a finger . What , -- should she be known to love again after such a mistake as hers , after such a catastrophe ? The evening before they started who should bustle into the house but Everett himself . It was then about six o'clock , and he was going to leave London by the night mail . That he should be a little given to bustle on such an occasion may perhaps be forgiven him . He had heard the news down on the Scotch coast , and had flown up to London , telegraphing as he did so backwards and forwards to Wharton . Of course he felt that the destruction of his cousin among the glaciers , -- whether by brandy or ice he did not much care , -- had made him for the nonce one of the important people of the world .