seven o'clock
After a bit o'course , I remembered as what we 'd sent one of Juno 's and Dandy 's pups to a place called Beechfield this time last year -- 't is that pup grown into a dog without a doubt ! '' It was certainly a bit of rank bad luck that there should be here , in Beechfield , a dog which , whenever she saw it , brought the image of her dead husband so vividly before her . She had just settled herself down , and was turning over the leaves of one of the many picture papers which Tremaine had bought for her on their jolly little journey on the day of her arrival at The Trellis House , when there came a ring at the door . Who could it be coming so late -- close to seven o'clock ? Enid Crofton got up , feeling vaguely disturbed . The new maid brought in a reply-paid telegram , and Mrs. Crofton tore open the orange envelope with just a faint premonition that something disagreeable was going to happen : -- `` May I come and stay with you for the week-end ? Have just arrived in England .