two o'clock
Be quick ! Off with your coat , and get busy . A man who can groom a horse properly ought to be able to use a rubber and hose . '' By two o'clock the Mercury was shining above and below . Thoroughly weary , yet well satisfied with the day 's record , Medenham went to bed . He was up at seven , and meant to talk severely to Dale after breakfast ; then he found , by consulting a directory , that the small hotel where his man had arranged to stay did not possess a telephone . It was annoying , but he had the consolation of knowing that an hour 's slow run would bring him to Hereford and reunite him with his sorely-needed baggage .