About eight o'clock in the evening
I inquired of the landlord if he had heard any news , but he said , No , nothing had happened except that his sister-in-law had got another , her eleventh baby . As I did not regard this of much importance , I trudged on again as soon as I had finished my meal . That I might be going in the teeth of danger did not occur to me ; in fact , I never troubled about any punishment for my deed , except the terrible punishment of my conscience . About eight o'clock in the evening , I entered the parish of Trewinion , and soon , as if drawn by a magnet , I found my way to the place where Wilfred and I had met . How vividly everything came back to me , and yet I seemed to have lived long years since we met . Only two days had elapsed ; and I had seemed to have grown old in that time . In my excited imagination I pictured him coming towards me again ; but soon my illusions were dispelled .