twelve o'clock
I should write you more fully , but as the matter is a confidential one I thought it would be better to speak . We shall be doubly grateful if you will have the kindness to see us alone . I write as a mother in making this appeal to your kindness ; for my child -- she is only a little over eight years old -- has the matter so deeply in her heart that any disappointment or undue delay would I fear affect her health . We presume to take your kindness for granted and will call a little before twelve o'clock . ` I may perhaps say -LRB- in case you should feel any hesitation as to my _ bona fides _ -RRB- that my husband purchased some years ago this estate . We were to have come here to live in the early summer , but were kept in the West by some important business of his . ` Believe me , yours sincerely , ` ALICE STONEHOUSE . '