about four o'clock
During the drive , Mrs. Palma was unusually cheerful , almost loquacious , and her companion attributed the agreeable change in her generally reticent manner to maternal pride and pleasure in the contemplated alliance of her only child . No reference was made to the subject , and when they reached Mrs. Brompton 's , Regina was not grieved to learn that the rehearsal had been postponed until he following day , in consequence of the sickness of Professor Hurtzsel . `` Then Farley must take you home , after I get out at Mrs. St. Clare 's . The carriage can return for me about four o'clock . '' `` That will not be necessary . I wish to go and see Mrs. Mason , who has been out of town since July , and I can very easily walk . She has changed her lodgings . ''