six o'clock
At breakfast there was instant need for some story . `` Mary says that Felix came back this morning , and that he has not gone at all , '' Hetta exclaimed . The poor woman could not bring herself to expose the vices of the son to her daughter . She could not say that he had stumbled into the house drunk at six o'clock . Hetta no doubt had her own suspicions . `` Yes ; he has come back , '' said Lady Carbury , broken-hearted by her troubles . `` It was some plan about the Mexican railway I believe , and has broken through .