six o'clock in the evening
`` That will just do , '' he said . `` I will go down to Weymouth to-day , and I will return to London to-morrow . '' And with an unusual lightness of spirit , which he ascribed purely to his satisfaction that he need punish Sylvia no longer , he started off upon his long journey . He reached the house of the Running Water by six o'clock in the evening ; and at the outset it seemed that his diplomacy had been sagacious . He was shown into the library , and opposite to him by the window Sylvia stood alone . She turned to him a white terror-haunted face , gazed at him for a second like one dazed , and then with a low cry of welcome came quickly toward him . Chayne caught her outstretched hands and all his joy at her welcome lay dead at the sight of her distress .