one o'clock
`` Forgive me ! '' he said , with simple , direct sincerity . After his interview with Eve , Loder retired to the study and spent the remaining hours of the day and the whole span of the evening in work . At one o'clock , still feeling fresh in mind and body , he dismissed Greening and passed into Chilcote 's bedroom . The interview with Eve , though widely different from the one he had anticipated , had left him stimulated and alert . In the hours that followed it there had been an added anxiety to put his mind into harness , an added gratification in finding it answer to the rein . A pleasant sense of retrospection settled upon him as he slowly undressed ; and a pleasant sense of interest touched him as , crossing to the dressing-table , he caught sight of Chilcote 's engagement-book -- taken with other things from the suit he had changed at dinner-time and carefully laid aside by Renwick .