Thomas Hardy,
Desperate Remedies — 7. FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF NOVEMBER
(1871)
“ So he wrote again to his wife, stating that business, which could not be postponed, called him away from home on Monday, and would entirely prevent him coming all the way to fetch her on Sunday night as he had intended, but that he would meet her at the Carriford Road Station with a conveyance when she arrived there in the evening. ”
