six o'clock
Can it be that only seventeen weeks ago I set on this paper the fact of their marriage ? I am now an aged woman by comparison ! On that never to be forgotten day we waited and waited , and Charles did not return . At six o'clock , when poor little Caroline had gone back to her room in a state of suspense impossible to describe , a man who worked in the water-meadows came to the house and asked for my father . He had an interview with him in the study . My father then rang his bell , and sent for me . I went down ; and I then learnt the fatal news .