five o'clock
Owing to this news of Miltoun the journey to Scotland had been postponed . She parried with cool ingenuity each attempt made by Lady Valleys to draw her into conversation on the subject of that meeting at Gustard 's , nor would she talk of her brother ; in every other way she was her usual self . In the afternoon she even volunteered to accompany her mother to old Lady Harbinger 's in the neighbourhood of Prince 's Gate . She knew that Harbinger would be there , and with the thought of meeting that other at ` five o'clock , ' had a cynical pleasure in thus encountering him . It was so complete a blind to them all ! Then , feeling that she was accomplishing a masterstroke ; she even told him , in her mother 's hearing , that she would walk home , and he might come if he cared . He did care .