about six o’clock
It was difficult even to see her face in imagination ; another face always came instead , and indeed needed no summoning . He rose next morning with a stern determination to marry Emma Vine in less than a month from that date . On Tuesday he went to London . A hansom put him down before the house in Highbury about six o'clock . It was a semidetached villa , stuccoed , bow-windowed , of two storeys , standing pleasantly on a wide road skirted by similar dwellings , and with a row of acacias in front . He admitted himself with a latch-key and walked at once into the front room ; it was vacant . He went to the dining-room and there found his mother at tea with Alice and ` Arry .