eight o'clock in the evening
After considering the matter for five minutes in doubt , Aunt Margaret did rush out , and did buy the cakes . Miss Mackenzie 's First Acquaintances In the first fortnight of Miss Mackenzie 's sojourn at Littlebath , four persons called upon her ; but though this was a success as far as it went , those fourteen days were very dull . During her former short visit to the place she had arranged to send her niece to a day school which had been recommended to her as being very genteel , and conducted under moral and religious auspices of most exalted character . Hither Susanna went every morning after breakfast , and returned home in these summer days at eight o'clock in the evening . On Sundays also , she went to morning church with the other girls ; so that Miss Mackenzie was left very much to herself . Mrs Pottinger was the first to call , and the doctor 's wife contented herself with simple offers of general assistance . She named a baker to Miss Mackenzie , and a dressmaker ; and she told her what was the proper price to be paid by the hour for a private brougham or for a public fly .