ten minutes after four
Mr. Tollemache was not at his chambers , nor expected till four o'clock . He was in court . She left her card , and wrote on it in pencil that she would call at four . She went at ten minutes after four . Mr. Tollemache declined , through his clerk , to see her if she was a client ; he could only be approached by her solicitor . She felt inclined to go away and cry ; but this time she remembered she was to be obstinate as a man and supple as a woman . She wrote on a card : `` I am not a client of Mr. Tollemache , but a lady deeply interested in obtaining some information , which Mr. Tollemache can with perfect propriety give me .