two o’clock
Andre was about to leave the cousins together , but the lady stopped him . `` Pray remain , M. Andre , '' said she ; `` you are not at all in the way ; besides , I shall have to speak of some one in whom you take a very deep interest -- of Mademoiselle de Mussidan , in short . `` I never knew such a strange occurrence , '' continued the Viscountess , recovering her spirits rapidly , `` as that to which , my dear Gontran , you owe my visit . Well , I was just going up to dress , for I had been detained by visitor after visitor , when at two o'clock another came before I could give my order , ` Not at home . ' This was the Marquis de Croisenois , the brother of the man who twenty years ago disappeared in so mysterious a manner . I hardly knew him at all , though of course we have met in society , and he bows to me in the Bois , but that is all . '' `` And yet he called on you to-day ? ''