seven o’clock
Alone in his bedroom Edward opened and read what he had not dared to refer to in their presence . The envelope contained another envelope in Cytherea 's handwriting , addressed to ` -- Manston , Esq. , Old Manor House . ' Inside this was the note she had written to the steward after her detention in his house by the thunderstorm -- ` KNAPWATER HOUSE , September 20th . ` I find I can not meet you at seven o'clock by the waterfall as I promised . The emotion I felt made me forgetful of realities . ` C. GRAYE . ' Miss Aldclyffe had not written a line , and , by the unvarying rule observable when words are not an absolute necessity , her silence seemed ten times as convincing as any expression of opinion could have been .