about two in the morning
her paleness told the rest . Hearing from Mr. Rhodes that he had walked the distance from town , and had been to Copsley , Lady Dunstane invited him to follow the pony-carriage thither , where he was fed and refreshed by a tea-breakfast , as he preferred walking on tea , he said . ` I took the liberty to call at Mrs. Warwick 's house , ' he informed her ; ` the footman said she was at Copsley . I found it on the map -- I knew the directions -- and started about two in the morning . I wanted a walk . ' It was evident to her that he was one of the young squires bewitched whom beautiful women are constantly enlisting . There was no concealment of it , though he stirred a sad enviousness in the invalid lady by descanting on the raptures of a walk out of London in the youngest light of day , and on the common objects he had noticed along the roadside , and through the woods , more sustaining , closer with nature than her compulsory feeding on the cream of things .