half past seven
She did not attempt to deny that she had been happy . But what she had _ said _ to Ranny when he told her was , `` It 's a mercy your poor father does n't know . '' And in that moment she thought of her happiness with a sharp pang as if it had been unfaithfulness to her dead husband . It was at half past seven on a Saturday evening in the last week of September , nineteen-twelve , that Mrs. Randall sat alone in the back sitting-room at Granville and meditated miserably on those things . Upstairs in his bedroom overhead she could hear Ranny moving very softly , for fear of waking Stanley . She knew what he was doing . He was changing , making himself smart enough to take Winny Dymond to the Earl 's Court Exhibition .