three o'clock
Hilda was in half a mind to tell Janet the history of the past year . She had wakened up in the night , and perceived with dreadful clearness that trouble lay in front of her . The relations between herself and Edwin Clayhanger were developing with the most dizzy rapidity , and in a direction which she desired , but it would be impossible for her , if she fostered the relations , to continue to keep Edwin in ignorance of the fact that , having been known for about a fortnight as Mrs. George Cannon , she was not what he supposed her to be . With imagination on fire , she was anticipating the rendezvous at three o'clock . She reached forward to it in ecstasy ; but she might not enjoy it , save at the price which her conscience exacted . She had to say to Edwin Clayhanger that she had been the victim of a bigamist . Could she say it to him ?