nearly one o'clock
`` Jane had to come back to lay the cloth . Mamma , where is aunty ? '' `` She has not come in yet . Why , dear me , it is nearly one o'clock ! Go and get off your boots , my darlings , and ask grandmamma when she expects aunty . '' Mrs. Liddell did not know when Katherine might return , and , moreover , she was getting uneasy . She did not like to say much about her errand , for she knew her daughter-in-law thought but indifferently of her writings , and with an indescribable `` crass '' dislike of what she could not do herself , would have been rather pleased than otherwise to know that a manuscript had been rejected .