about one o’clock
The maid was obviously a stupid girl . It seemed to be my duty to wait for Lalage and tell her , soothingly , what had happened . I went into the Canon 's study and made myself comfortable with a pipe . At about one o'clock Lalage arrived without Miss Battersby . She made no comment at first on the absence of Hilda 's mother . Her mind had evidently been turned away from that subject . She flung herself into a chair , and dragged furiously at the pins which fastened on her hat .