eight o'clock on
Wednesday
This he posted on Friday . On the following Monday morning , the post brought two letters for him , both addressed in female hand , one bearing a city , the other a country , post-mark . Waymark smiled as he compared the two envelopes , on one of which his name stood in firm , upright characters , on the other in slender , sloping , delicate writing . The former he pressed to his lips , then tore open eagerly ; it was the promised intimation that Ida would be at home after eight o'clock on Wednesday and Friday evenings , nothing more . The second letter he allowed to lie by till he had breakfasted . He could see that it contained more than one sheet . When at length he opened it , he read this : -- `` DEAR MR. WAYMARK , -- I have an hour of freedom this Sunday afternoon , and I will spend it in replying as well as I can to your very interesting letter .