three o'clock
she called . `` Eve ! We must fly . It 's absolutely three o'clock ! '' In the days that followed Fraide 's marked adoption of him Loder behaved with a discretion that spoke well for his qualities . Many a man placed in the same responsible , and yet strangely irresponsible , position might have been excused if , for the time at least , he gave himself a loose rein . But Loder kept free of the temptation .