About eleven o'clock
There must always be some self-sacrifice in a lofty ambition , but hers is a sacrifice that few women could endure to pay . '' Bessie held her peace . She had been instructed how all but impossible it is to live in the world and be absolutely truthful ; and what perplexed her in this new character of her old school-fellow she therefore supposed to be the veil of glamour which the world requires to have thrown over an ugly , naked truth . About eleven o'clock the two young ladies walked out across the park towards the lodge , to pay a visit to Mrs. Stokes . Then they walked on to the village , and home again by the mill . The morning seemed long drawn out . Then followed luncheon , and after it Mr. Cecil Burleigh drove in an open carriage with Bessie and his sister to Hartwell .