6 o'clock
You shall have the rest when I get them . Tell dear Mr. George -LRB- I must not call him Vert-Vert -RRB- that I have recollected the name of the author of the clever novel ` Le Rouge et le Noir ' -LRB- that is the right title of the book , which has nothing to do with the name -RRB- ; the author 's name is Stendhal , or so he calls himself . I think that he was either a musician or a musical critic , and that he is dead ... . My visitor has not yet arrived -LRB- 6 o'clock , p.m. -RRB- , frightened no doubt by the abruptness of the two notes which I wrote in reply to hers yesterday morning ; and indeed nobody could fancy the hurry in which one is forced to write by this walking post ... . Tell my visitors of yesterday with my kind love that they did me all the good in the world , as indeed everybody of your house does . -- Ever , dear Miss Priscilla , very affectionately yours , In the present writer 's own early days , when the now owner of Swallowfield was a very young , younger son , she used to hear him and his sister , Mrs. Brackenbury -LRB- the Miss Priscilla of the note -RRB- , speaking with affectionate remembrance of the old friend lately gone , who had dwelt at their very gates ; through which friendly gates one is glad , indeed , to realise what delightful companionship and loving help came to cheer the end of that long and toilsome life ; and when Messrs. Macmillan suggested this preface the writer looked for her old autograph-book , and at its suggestion wrote -LRB- wondering whether any links existed still -RRB- to ask for information concerning Miss Mitford , and so it happened that she found herself also kindly entertained at Swallowfield , and invited to visit the scenes of which the author of ` Our Village ' had written with so much delight .