three o'clock
How shall I describe the suggestions that led me to make a most nefarious use of this paper ? Circumstances most unhappily concurred to make my artifice easy and plausible . I discovered that Colden had spent most of the preceding night with your daughter . It is true a most heavy storm had raged during the evening , and the moment it remitted -LRB- which was not till three o'clock -RRB- he was seen to come out . His detention , therefore , candour would ascribe to the storm ; but this letter , with such a conclusion as was too easily made , might fix a construction on it that no time could remove and innocence could never confute . I had not resolved in what way I should employ this letter , as I had eked it out , before Mr. Talbot 's return . When that event took place , my old infatuation revived .