three o'clock before
Still , you could hardly suppose that it was the crisis that was taking him up to London . I remember thinking he had run away from Charlie Thesiger , because he bored him . He left on Tuesday , the twenty-eighth , and he was to be back on Friday , the thirty-first , and Charlie was to leave with Norah and me and our nurse and Baby on the Monday following , when our fortnight was up . So on Friday afternoon I was a little astonished to find my sister-in-law , dressed in her town suit of white cloth , drinking tea at three o'clock before going up to London . She simply stated the fact that she was going up . Norah had said she might stay in our house and she hoped I would n't mind . When I suggested that it would surely be nicer for us all to go up together on Monday she looked at me with a certain long-suffering expression that she had for me at times , and said that would n't suit her , since she had got to go to-day .