four in the afternoon
she asked . John Morton had thought about this too , and expressed a wish that Reginald should come regularly , -- as he had come during the last week or two . It was just a week from the day on which the Trefoils had gone that Mrs. Morton was driven up to the door in Mr. Runciman 's fly . This was at four in the afternoon , and had the old woman looked out of the fly window she might have seen Reginald making his way by the little path to the bridge which led back to Dillsborough . It was at this hour that he went daily , and he had not now thought it worth his while to remain to welcome Mrs. Morton . And she might also have seen , had she looked out , that with him was walking a young woman . She would not have known Mary Masters ; but had she seen them both , and had she known the young woman , she would have declared in her pride that they were fit associates .