one o'clock
`` He will tell you . It is none of my affair now . '' And that was all Dennison could dig out of Ling Foo . Jane Norman did not return at one o'clock ; in fact , she never returned to the Astor House . Dennison waited until three ; then he went back to the Palace , and Ling Foo to his shop and oblivion . Dennison decided that he did not want the police in the affair . In that event there would be a lot of publicity , followed by the kind of talk that stuck .