three o'clock
` It may be as you say , ma'am . ' She was disappointed in her scheme to induce a general examination of palms , and especially his sphinx lordship 's . Weyburn controlled the tongue she so frequently tickled to an elvish gavotte , but the humour on his face touched Mrs. Lawrence 's to a subdued good-fellow roguishness , and he felt himself invited to chat with her on the walk for a reposeful ten minutes in Aminta 's drawing-room . Mrs. Pagnell , ` quite enjoying the company , ' as she told her niece , was dismayed to hear her niece tell her of a milliner 's appointment , positive for three o'clock ; and she had written it in her head ` p.m. , four o'clock , ' and she had mislaid or destroyed the milliner 's note ; and she still had designs upon his lordship 's palms , things to read and hint around her off the lines . She departed . Lord Ormont became genial ; and there was no one present who did not marvel that he should continue to decree a state of circumstances more or less necessitating the infliction he groaned under . He was too lofty to be questioned , even by his favourites .