six o'clock
I want to be at home -- to be in my own place . '' Theresa Bilson bustled upstairs . Barring the absence of the extra brake , which had caused -- and for this she could not be sorry since did n't it justify her `` attitude '' towards her recalcitrant ex-pupil ? -- some inconvenient overcrowding in transit to and from the station , and barring the rain , which set in between five and six o'clock , the expedition to Harchester passed off with considerable _ éclat _ . Such , in any case , was Theresa 's opinion , she herself having figured conspicuously in the foreground . During the inspection of the Cathedral the Dean paid her quite marked attention ; thanks , in part , to her historical and archaeological knowledge -- of which she made the most , and to her connection with the Verity family -- of which she made the most also . In precisely what that connection might consist , the learned and timid old gentleman , being very deaf and rather near-sighted , failed to gather .