ten o'clock
If Wednesday should ever come ! It did come , and exactly when it might be reasonably looked for . It came -- it was fine -- and Catherine trod on air . By ten o'clock , the chaise and four conveyed the trio from the abbey ; and , after an agreeable drive of almost twenty miles , they entered Woodston , a large and populous village , in a situation not unpleasant . Catherine was ashamed to say how pretty she thought it , as the general seemed to think an apology necessary for the flatness of the country , and the size of the village ; but in her heart she preferred it to any place she had ever been at , and looked with great admiration at every neat house above the rank of a cottage , and at all the little chandler 's shops which they passed . At the further end of the village , and tolerably disengaged from the rest of it , stood the parsonage , a new-built substantial stone house , with its semicircular sweep and green gates ; and , as they drove up to the door , Henry , with the friends of his solitude , a large Newfoundland puppy and two or three terriers , was ready to receive and make much of them . Catherine 's mind was too full , as she entered the house , for her either to observe or to say a great deal ; and , till called on by the general for her opinion of it , she had very little idea of the room in which she was sitting .