four o'clock
`` Did you not get a note from my lord ? '' `` No ; when was it written ? '' `` Oh , dear me , that is so very unfortunate . Why , sir , my lord sent off a servant this morning to Kilrush , in Lord Kilkee 's tilbury , to request you would meet them all in Ennis this evening , where they had intended to stop for to-night ; and they waited here till near four o'clock to-day , but when the servant came back with the intelligence that you were from home , and not expected to return soon , they were obliged to set out , and are not going to make any delay now , till they reach London . The last direction , however , my lord gave , was to forward her ladyship 's letter to you as soon as possible . '' What I thought , said , or felt , might be a good subject of confession to Father Malachi , for I fear it may be recorded among my sins , as I doubt not that the agony I suffered vented itself in no measured form of speech or conduct ; but I have nothing to confess here on the subject , being so totally overwhelmed as not to know what I did or said . My first gleam of reason elicited itself by asking , `` Is there , then , no chance of their stopping in Ennis to-night ? ''