six o’clock
He persuaded himself that he had left himself no time , and should miss the train , and hastened off to the station , where he had to wait a quarter of an hour , consoling himself with reflecting -- ` After all , though I might have gone to him , it would have been useless . He is obstinate , and occasions of irritating his unfortunate temper are above all to be avoided . ' One short year after , what would not Philip have given for that quarter of an hour ! By six o'clock he was at St. Mildred 's , greeted with delight by his sister , and with cordiality by Dr. Henley . They were both proud of him , and every tender feeling his sister had was for Philip , her pet , and her pupil in his childhood , and her most valued companion and counsellor through her early womanhood . She had a picked dinner-party to meet him , for she knew the doctor 's conversation was not exactly the thing to entertain him through a whole evening , and the guests might well think they had never seen a handsomer or more clever brother and sister than Mrs. Henley and Captain Morville . The old county families , if they did wonder at her marriage , were always glad to meet her brother , and it was a great pleasure to him to see old friends .