one o'clock
The idea was that they should call on Si and announce to him , respectfully : `` Uncle , we think it only right to tell you that we are married . We hope you will not take it ill , we should like to be friends . '' They would then leave the old man to eat the news with his dinner . A cab was to be at the door at one o'clock to carry them to Knype Station , where they would partake of the wedding breakfast in the first-class refreshment room , and afterwards catch the two-forty to Blackpool , there to spend a honeymoon of six days . This was the idea . Herbert was already rehearsing in his mind the exact tone in which he should say to Si : `` Uncle , we think it only right -- '' when , as they approached the house , they both saw a white envelope suspended under the knocker of the door . It was addressed to `` Mr Herbert Roden , '' in the handwriting of Silas .