four o'clock
Mrs. Baxter did not often stop at the Vicarage ; as she did not altogether approve of the Vicar 's wife . There was a good deal of pride in the old lady , and it seemed to her occasionally as if Mrs. Rymer did not understand the difference between the Hall and the Parsonage . She envied sometimes , secretly , the Romanist idea of celibacy : it was so much easier to get on with your spiritual adviser if you did not have to consider his wife . But here , was a matter which a clergyman must settle for her once and for all ; so she put on a slight air of dignity which became her very well , and a little after four o'clock the Victoria turned up the steep little drive that led to the Vicarage . Thee dusk was already fallen before Laurie , strolling vaguely in the garden , heard the carriage wheels draw up at the gate outside . He had ridden again alone , and his mind had run , to a certain extent , as might be expected , upon the recent guest and her very startling conversation . He was an intelligent young man , and he had not been in the least taken in by her pseudo-mystical remarks .