three o'clock
The next day , recovered from the shuddering fit of this evening scene , she determined to use the charter which Grandcourt had scornfully given her , and to talk as much as she liked with Deronda ; but no opportunities occurred , and any little devices she could imagine for creating them were rejected by her pride , which was now doubly active . Not toward Deronda himself -- she was singularly free from alarm lest he should think her openness wanting in dignity : it was part of his power over her that she believed him free from all misunderstanding as to the way in which she appealed to him ; or rather , that he should misunderstand her had never entered into her mind . But the last morning came , and still she had never been able to take up the dropped thread of their talk , and she was without devices . She and Grandcourt were to leave at three o'clock . It was too irritating that after a walk in the grounds had been planned in Deronda 's hearing , he did not present himself to join in it . Grandcourt was gone with Sir Hugo to King 's Topping , to see the old manor-house ; others of the gentlemen were shooting ; she was condemned to go and see the decoy and the waterfowl , and everything else that she least wanted to see , with the ladies , with old Lord Pentreath and his anecdotes , with Mr. Vandernoodt and his admiring manners . The irritation became too strong for her ; without premeditation , she took advantage of the winding road to linger a little out of sight , and then set off back to the house , almost running when she was safe from observation .