about four o'clock
She was even ready to look into every bush , in case he had been frightened and hidden himself ; and nothing would satisfy her but to stay making these researches , when her master had decided on endeavouring to find ` Parker ' at the club , and to ascertain from him particulars of time and place . He was found there . The dinner-hour had brought him back , he being a man in authority there , very well dressed and deferential , declaring himself immensely distressed at the occurrence , and at having accosted Gregorio and attracted his attention . It was about four o'clock , he thought , and he described the exact spot where the little boy had been sailing his vessel fastened to a string . They might have been talking twenty minutes or half an hour when Gregorio missed his charge , and since that time both had been doing all in their power to find him , until half-past seven , when he had to return to his club , and Gregorio went to see whether the child had been taken home . By this time Mr. Egremont looked so utterly exhausted , that Mr. Dutton availed himself of the hope that the boy might be found safe at home to take him back ; but alas ! nothing had been heard there .