five o'clock before
On the afternoon in question I certainly believe myself guilty of such lapse of professional attention . Yet even we doctors are human , although our patients frequently forget that fact . The medico is a long-suffering person , even in these days of scarcity of properly-qualified men -- the first person called on emergency , and the very last to be paid ! It was past five o'clock before I was able to return to my rooms , and on arrival I found upon my table a note from Jevons . It was dated from the Yorick Club , a small but exceedingly comfortable Bohemian centre in Bedford Street , Covent Garden , and had evidently been written hurriedly on the previous night : -- _ `` I hear you are absent in the country . That is unfortunate . But as soon as you receive this , lose no time in calling at the Hennikers ' and making casual inquiries regarding Miss Mivart .