two o’clock
-- Other thoughts are forced into my mind in spite of me . My suspicions of yesterday were no mere fancies ; the milliner has been tampered with . My folly in going back to her house has led to my being traced here . I am absolutely certain that I never gave the woman my address ; and yet my new gown was sent home to me at two o'clock to-day ! `` A man brought it with the bill , and a civil message , to say that , as I had not called at the appointed time to try it on again , the dress had been finished and sent to me . He caught me in the passage ; I had no choice but to pay the bill , and dismiss him . Any other proceeding , as events have now turned out , would have been pure folly .