about four o'clock in the afternoon
You are English born , and have a right to sit in that seat which might have been your mother 's but for the pride and prejudice which thirty years ago ruled both your grandmother and myself . '' Leaving them to talk over future plans , Quincy went back to the hotel and wrote two letters . The first was addressed to Lord Algernon Hastings in London . The other was a brief note to Aunt Ella , informing her that a party of four would start for Boston on the morning train and that she might expect them about four o'clock in the afternoon . It lacked but five minutes of that hour when a carriage , containing the party from New York , stopped before the Mt. Vernon Street house . It suited Quincy 's purpose that his companions should first meet his wife , although the fact that she was his wife was as yet unknown to them . The meeting between Alice and Linda was friendly , but not effusive .