two o'clock
She could not remain about the house in her aunt 's way , without being spoken to , or speaking . So she went to her room , resolving that she would not leave it till the carriage had taken off Sir John and her aunt . Then she would go out for a walk , and would again meet her cousin at the station . From her bedroom window she could see the sweep before the front of the house , and at two o'clock she saw and heard the lumbering of the carriage as it came to the door , and then she put on her hat to be ready for her walk ; but her uncle and aunt did not , as it seemed , come out , and the carriage remained there as a fixture . This had been the case for some twenty minutes , when there came a knock at her own door , and the maid-servant told her that her aunt wished to see her in the drawing-room . `` To see me ? '' said Margaret , thoroughly surprised , and not a little dismayed .