six o'clock in the
afternoon
`` I knew it would happen in the end , '' Hilda said , `` and it has happened . The Archdeacon has asked me to tea . '' She was speaking to Alicia Livingstone in the dormitory , changing at the same time for a `` turn '' at the hospital . It was six o'clock in the afternoon . Alicia 's landau stood at the door of the Baker Institution . She had come to find that Miss Howe was just going on duty and could not be taken for a drive . `` When ? ''