two o’clock in the afternoon
Sir Patrick said no more . Anne 's face was before him again at the memorable moment when he had told her that she was Geoffrey 's wife . IT was Saturday , the third of October -- the day on which the assertion of Arnold 's marriage to Anne Silvester was to be put to the proof . Toward two o'clock in the afternoon Blanche and her step-mother entered the drawing-room of Lady Lundie 's town house in Portland Place . Since the previous evening the weather had altered for the worse . The rain , which had set in from an early hour that morning , still fell . Viewed from the drawing-room windows , the desolation of Portland Place in the dead season wore its aspect of deepest gloom .