about seven o'clock
`` In the first place , '' her husband continued , `` how did he arrive here ? '' `` For all I know , '' she replied , `` he may have walked . '' `` A little unlikely . Still , he did n't come from London by either of the evening trains , and it seems that you did n't take his rooms for him until about seven o'clock , before which time he had n't been to the hotel . So , you see , one is driven to wonder how the mischief he did get here . '' `` I took his rooms ? '' Philippa repeated , with a sudden little catch at her heart .