seven o'clock
Indeed it will . Why should n't it ? '' Lavinia laughed confidently , and her joyful tone and her face so bright with its contrast with her desolate condition brought a furtive tear to Hannah 's eye , but she took care not to let the girl see it . The morning had broken fair and by seven o'clock Lavinia was trudging along Holborn on her way to Hampstead through what is known now as Tottenham Court Road , then little more than a wide country lane . At Great Turnstile she lingered and her eyes wandered down the narrow passage . Great Turnstile led to Lincoln 's Inn Fields , and in Portugal Row on the south side of the `` Fields '' was the Duke 's Theatre . Association of ideas was too strong to be resisted .