eleven o'clock
Adam then went straight to the house from which the Stonition coach started : Stoniton was the most obvious place for Hetty to go to first , whatever might be her destination , for she would hardly venture on any but the chief coach-roads . She had been noticed here too , and was remembered to have sat on the box by the coachman ; but the coachman could not be seen , for another man had been driving on that road in his stead the last three or four days . He could probably be seen at Stoniton , through inquiry at the inn where the coach put up . So the anxious heart-stricken Adam must of necessity wait and try to rest till morning -- nay , till eleven o'clock , when the coach started . At Stoniton another delay occurred , for the old coachman who had driven Hetty would not be in the town again till night . When he did come he remembered Hetty well , and remembered his own joke addressed to her , quoting it many times to Adam , and observing with equal frequency that he thought there was something more than common , because Hetty had not laughed when he joked her . But he declared , as the people had done at the inn , that he had lost sight of Hetty directly she got down .