midnight
There was a great deal said , and Captain Aylmer walked very often up and down the room , endeavouring to make some arrangement which might seem in some sort to appease his mother . Would Clara only allow a telegram to be sent to Mrs. Askerton , to explain that she had changed her mind ? But Clara would allow no such telegram to be sent , and on that evening she packed up all her things . Captain Aylmer saw her again and again , sending Belinda backwards and forwards , and making different appointments up to midnight ; but it was all to no purpose , and on the next morning she took her departure alone in the Aylmer Park carriage for the railway station . Captain Aylmer had proposed to go with her ; but she had so stoutly declined his company that he was obliged to abandon his intention . She saw neither of the ladies on that morning , but Sir Anthony came out to say a word of farewell to her in the hall . `` I am very sorry for all this , '' said he .