six o'clock in the evening
He wrote a few lines to my lady , telling her that he was going to carry her away from Audley Court to a place from which she was not likely to return , and requesting her to lose no time in preparing for the journey . He wished to start that evening , if possible , he told her . Miss Susan Martin , the lady 's maid , thought it a very hard thing to have to pack her mistress ' trunks in such a hurry , but my lady assisted in the task . She toiled resolutely in directing and assisting her servant , who scented bankruptcy and ruin in all this packing up and hurrying away , and was therefore rather languid and indifferent in the discharge of her duties ; and at six o'clock in the evening she sent her attendant to tell Mr. Audley that she was ready to depart as soon as he pleased . Robert had consulted a volume of Bradshaw , and had discovered that Villebrumeuse lay out of the track of all railway traffic , and was only approachable by diligence from Brussels . The mail for Dover left London Bridge at nine o'clock , and could be easily caught by Robert and his charge , as the seven o'clock up-train from Audley reached Shoreditch at a quarter past eight . Traveling by the Dover and Calais route , they would reach Villebrumeuse by the following afternoon or evening .