two o'clock
`` Oh , well , I would n't then , '' said her sister hurriedly . `` You 'd better jest set here quietly and rest . '' `` Yes , I 'll rest , '' Ann Eliza assented . At two o'clock Mr. Ramy returned , and a moment later he and Evelina left the shop . Evelina had made herself another new bonnet for the occasion , a bonnet , Ann Eliza thought , almost too youthful in shape and colour . It was the first time it had ever occurred to her to criticize Evelina 's taste , and she was frightened at the insidious change in her attitude toward her sister . When Ann Eliza , in later days , looked back on that afternoon she felt that there had been something prophetic in the quality of its solitude ; it seemed to distill the triple essence of loneliness in which all her after-life was to be lived .