ten o'clock
Why had he chosen to take his young bride , on the day of their marriage , to that gloomy and accursed spot ? A strange thrill of apprehension , vague , yet none the less dreadful , shook my nerves . I consulted the latest A.B.C. time-table , which lay in the reading-room of the hotel . In exactly an hour another train would leave Paddington for Maidenhead and Marlow -LRB- the nearest stations to Purley Lock -RRB- , and after that there would not be another until ten o'clock . I should not have much more than time to catch the former , if I intended to go by it -- and I _ did _ intend to go . Exactly what I was to do , how I was to get Karine away from her husband , I did not dare stop to think , but somehow I would do it . So great was my dread of Wildred as a criminal , and my respect for him as a schemer , that I even feared dimly for Karine 's safety with him .