noon
After arriving at Waterloo station , therefore , we were obliged to wait for nearly an hour before we could get another which would take us to Haslemere . A curious feeling that I had passed through all this before came over me , and as we stepped out of our carriage on the platform of the Haslemere station it seemed but yesterday that I had arrived at the same place , intent on bidding Karine that farewell which never had been spoken . The time of day gave me the only sense of difference . We had left the ship early in the morning , had made our first journey in two hours , and now it was only very little past noon . I had wished -LRB- considering the reception I had met at Sir Walter Tressidy 's on my first and last visit at his country house -RRB- to remain at an hotel in Haslemere , there to await such news as Cunningham might have to bring . For Karine 's sake , I thought , it would be better for me not to appear openly in the matter , unless it proved that the influence of her brother and his narrative were not as potent in their effect as I anticipated . Should he require any attestations from me , I was only too glad to be on the spot and to be called upon to give them .