6 A.M.
Whatever might be her future views , she did not now take steps to present herself to him . ` I shall be so much the more bound to present myself to her , ' he said to himself . ` But perhaps she knows all that , ' he added in the same soliloquy . On the Wednesday morning they left Melbourne by the 6 A.M. train for Albury , which latter place they reached the same day , about 2 P.M. , having then crossed the Murray river , and passed into the colony of New South Wales . Here they stayed but a few hours and then went on by coach on their journey to Nobble . From one wretched vehicle they were handed on to another , never stopping anywhere long enough to go to bed , -- three hours at one wretched place and five at another , -- travelling at the rate of six miles an hour , bumping through the mud and slush of the bush roads , and still going on for three days and three nights . This was roughing it indeed .