three in the afternoon
It reconciles all difficulties , puts an end to all Chancery suits , and will shower general happiness , when some at least must have been made miserable . Come with me -- William is very feverish this morning : you only can do him good . '' Mrs McElvina led the agitated girl into the sick chamber , and whispering to Seymour that Emily knew all , and that all was well , was so very imprudent as to allow her feelings to overcome her sense of chaperonism , and left them together . I am aware that I now have a fair opportunity of inserting a most interesting conversation , full of _ ohs _ and _ ahs , dears _ and _ sweets _ , etcetera , which would be much relished by all misses of seventeen , or thereabouts ; but as I do not write novels for them , and the young couple have no secrets to which the reader is not already a party , I shall leave them to imagine the explanation , with all its concomitant retrospections and anticipations , softened with tears and sweetened with kisses ; and , as the plot now thickens , change the scene to the dressing-room of Rainscourt , who had now just risen , at his usual hour , viz. , between two and three in the afternoon . His French valet is in attendance shaving him , and dressing his hair , and communicating what little intelligence he has been enabled to collect for his master 's amusement . `` Monsieur has not seen the young officer who was wounded ? '' `` No ; I wonder why they brought him up here .