five in the afternoon
It was nice to be loved ardently and by a hero , even though that hero was not a gentleman of distinction , scarcely a gentleman at all . The next moment she blushed at her own vanity . Next she was seized with a sense of the great indelicacy and unpardonable impropriety of letting her mind run at all upon a person of the other sex ; and shaking her lovely shoulders , as much as to say , `` Away idle thoughts , '' she nestled and fitted with marvelous suppleness into a corner of the carriage , and sank into a sweet sleep , with a red cheek , two wet eyelashes , and a half-smile of the most heavenly character imaginable . And so she glided along till , at five in the afternoon , the carriage turned in at Mr. Bazalgette 's gates . Lucy lifted her eyes , and there was quite a little group standing on the steps to receive her , and waving welcome to the universal pet . There was Mr. Bazalgette , Mrs. Bazalgette , and two servants , and a little in the rear a tall stranger of gentleman-like appearance . The two ladies embraced one another so rapidly yet so smoothly , and so dovetailed and blended , that they might be said to flow together , and make one in all but color , like the Saone and the Rhone .