two o’clock on Monday
I insisted on his looking at it . ` I do n't choose to be mistaken , ' I said , ` for a woman who may be a bad character , because she happens to bear , or to have assumed , the same name as mine . I insist on your reading the first part of this letter for my satisfaction , if not for your own . ' He was obliged to comply ; and there was the proof , in the old lady 's handwriting , that , at two o'clock on Monday last , she and I were together in Kingsdown Crescent , which any directory would tell him is a ` crescent ' in Bayswater ! I leave you to imagine his apologies , and the perfect sweetness with which I received them . `` I might , of course , if I had not preserved the letter , have referred him to you , or to the major 's mother , with similar results . As it is , the object has been gained without trouble or delay .