one o'clock
Adair was as one who has seen a vision . `` By Jove , '' he said at last , `` if we only could ! '' The rain continued without a break all the morning . The two teams , after hanging about dismally , and whiling the time away with stump-cricket in the changing-rooms , lunched in the pavilion at one o'clock . After which the M.C.C. captain , approaching Adair , moved that this merry meeting be considered off and himself and his men permitted to catch the next train back to town . To which Adair , seeing that it was out of the question that there should be any cricket that afternoon , regretfully agreed , and the first Sedleigh _ v _ . M.C.C. match was accordingly scratched .