seven o'clock
Mr. Carrington found Mr. Tupping at home ; and he could not have gone to a better man , for though the lawyer had given up active practise , he still retained the work of a few old clients in whom he took a friendly interest ; and among them was Mrs. Dangerfield . He was eager to prevent the Terror from being prosecuted for poaching not only because the scandal would annoy her deeply but also because she could so ill afford the expense of the case . He readily fell in with the view of Mr. Carrington that they had better take the offensive , and that the violent behavior of Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer had given them the weapons . The result of their council was that not later than seven o'clock that evening Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer was served by the constable of Little Deeping with a summons for an assault on Violet Anastasia Dangerfield , and with another summons for an assault on Bertram Carrington , F. R. S. ; and in the course of the next twenty minutes his keeper was served with a summons for an assault on Rupert Carrington . Though on recovering consciousness he had sent the keeper to scour the neighborhood for Wiggins and the Terror , Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer was in a chastened shaken mood , owing to the fact that he had been `` put to sleep by an uppercut on the point . '' He made haste to despatch a car into Rowington to bring the lawyer who managed his local business . The lawyer knew his client 's unpopularity in the county , and advised him earnestly to try to hush these matters up .