one o'clock on Thursday, the eighth of October
On the twenty-ninth of September I went down to Challis Court and stayed there for a week . Then I returned for a few days to Wood Farm in order to put my things together and pack my books . I had decided to go to Cairo for the winter with Challis . At half-past one o'clock on Thursday , the eighth of October , I was in the sitting-room , when I saw the figure of Mrs. Stott coming across the Common . She came with a little stumbling run . I could see that she was agitated even before she reached the farmyard gate . She opened the front door without knocking , and came straight into my sitting-room . ''