about noon
While he was there a letter arrived for him , forwarded from home ; it was from Willis , dated from London , and announced that he had come to a very important decision , and should not return to Oxford . Charles was fairly in the world again , plunged into the whirl of opinions : how sad a contrast to his tranquil home ! There was no mistaking what the letter meant ; and he set out at once with the chance of finding the writer at the house from which he dated it . It was a lodging at the west-end of town ; and he reached it about noon . He found Willis in company with a person apparently two or three years older . Willis started on seeing him . `` Who would have thought !