about five o'clock
in the afternoon
But how can I say that I like her ? '' She did , however , know that Lady Cantrip was a countess all over , and would be shocked at the idea of a daughter of a Duke of Omnium marrying the younger son of a country squire . Nothing further was then said on the matter , and when the Duke went to town Lady Mary was left quite alone , with an understanding that if he went into Barsetshire he should come back and take her with him . He arrived at his own house in Carlton Terrace about five o'clock in the afternoon , and immediately went to his study , intending to dine and spend the evening there alone . His son had already pleaded an engagement for that afternoon , but had consented to devote the following morning to his father 's wishes . Of the other sojourner in his house the Duke had thought nothing ; but the other sojourner had thought very much of the Duke . Frank Tregear was fully possessed of that courage which induces a man who knows that he must be thrown over a precipice , to choose the first possible moment for his fall .