three o'clock
But neither womanly virtues nor Christian graces are wont to flourish in the school in which Diana Paget had been reared . She obeyed Valentine Hawkehurst to the letter , without any sentimental lamentations whatever . Her scanty possessions were collected , and neatly packed , in little more than an hour . At three o'clock she lay down in her tawdry little bed-chamber to take what rest she might in the space of two hours . At six she stood by Valentine Hawkehurst on the platform of the railway station , with her face hidden by a brown gauze veil , waiting till the train was made ready to start . It was after she was seated in the carriage that she spoke for the first time of her father . `` Is it likely to go very hard with him ? ''