five o'clock in the afternoon
She determined to go at once to Patesville . Returning home , she wrote a letter to Warwick inclosing their mother 's letter , and stating that she had dreamed an alarming dream for three nights in succession ; that she had left the house in charge of the servants and gone to Patesville ; and that she would return as soon as her mother was out of danger . To her lover she wrote that she had been called away to visit a sick-bed , and would return very soon , perhaps by the time he got back to Clarence . These letters Rena posted on her way to the train , which she took at five o'clock in the afternoon . This would bring her to Patesville early in the morning of the following day . War has been called the court of last resort . A lawsuit may with equal aptness be compared to a battle -- the parallel might be drawn very closely all along the line .