about five o'clock
He watched wistfully as the bright heads passed out of sight , and the long struggling cough and gasping that followed had all the pangs of parting to add to their burthen . Half the family escorted Felix and his charge to the station ; and in the quiet that followed , Sister Constance had a good sleep on Wilmet 's bed , as much , she said , as she ever required ; and she came from it all freshness and brightness , making the dinner-time very charming to all the diminished party , though Wilmet felt greatly lost without the little ones ; and afterwards she earned the warmest gratitude from Edgar and Geraldine by looking over their drawings and giving them some valuable hints -- nay , she even devised the new and delightful occupation of ship-building for those three inconvenient subjects , Clement , Fulbert , and Lancelot . Upstairs or down , all was gentle cheerfulness and patience wherever she went . Felix came home about five o'clock , and his mother was persuaded to go to lie down while he amused his father with the account of the children 's exemplary behaviour , and of their kind welcome at St. Faith 's , where he had been kept to dine , feeling , as he said , ` uncommonly queer ' at first , but at last deciding , to the great diversion of his father , that the sisters were a set of jolly old girls , but not one equal to ' _ our _ Sister Constance . ' Then he had seen the church , and was almost bewildered with the beauty of the decorations ; and Mr. Underwood , though saying little , evidently much enjoyed his boy 's refreshment and pleasure . He certainly seemed no worse , and Mr. Audley was allowed , what he had often asked before , to sit up with him . But there was much to render it a long , anxious , restless night of a sort of semi-consciousness , and murmuring talk , as if he fancied himself at Vale Leston again .