nearly seven o’clock
Mrs. Meldrum cried . `` They 've vital reasons , she wired , for it 's not coming out for a month . Then it will be formally announced , but meanwhile her happiness is delirious . I daresay Mr. Dawling already knows , and he may , as it 's nearly seven o'clock , have jumped off London Bridge ; but an effect of the talk I had with him the other day was to make me , on receipt of my telegram , feel it to be my duty to warn him in person against taking action , as it were , on the horrid certitude which I could see he carried away with him . I had added somehow to that certitude . He told me what you had told him you had seen in your shop . '' Mrs. Meldrum , I perceived , had come to Welbeck Street on an errand identical with my own -- a circumstance indicating her rare sagacity , inasmuch as her ground for undertaking it was a very different thing from what Flora 's wonderful visit had made of mine .