six o'clock
If Alfonso 's eyes were fixed on her a moment longer than custom allows , perhaps he was excusable , for portrait painting was his hobby , and he fancied that he knew a beautiful face . Alfonso was all attention to his friends in clearing the baggage through the customs and getting checks for Leamington . After lunch , at the fine railway hotel , the two o'clock express from Lime Street station was taken , and Colonel Harris and party became loud in their praises of John Bull 's Island , as they sped on , via Coventry with her three tall spires , to the fashionable Spa , where the Harris family were again to be reunited . It was six o'clock when Alfonso alighted on the platform . `` Here they are , mother , I have brought them all ; father , Gertrude , George , and May . '' The Leamington meeting was a happy one . The sorrow of separation is often compensated by the joys of reunion .