About six o'clock
`` I do n't know as I 've done right , sir , '' she mumbled , `` letting the pore lady wait here for you like this , but I could n't hardly help it , sir ! She says as how she must see you , and seeing as how your first tellygram said you was coming at half-past nine , I lets her stop on ! '' `` When did she arrive '' asked Desmond softly . `` About six o'clock , '' answered the old , woman . `` Walked all the way up from Wentfield Station , too , sir , and that cold she was when she arrived here , fair blue with the cold she was , pore dear . D'reckly she open her lips , I sees she 's a furrin ' lady , sir . She asks after you and I tells her as how you are away and wo n't be back till this evening .