One o'clock
`` I shall be at the station . '' `` Bring the gear with you , and I will bring the flanges , '' said the mechanician , rising . `` To-morrow will prove whether we have been following a shadow , or whether fortune is at our feet . One o'clock at Victoria . '' He walked swiftly down the stair and was quickly reabsorbed into the flood of comfortless clammy humanity which ebbed and flowed along the Strand . * * * * * The morning was bright and spring-like . A pale blue sky arched over London , with a few gauzy white clouds drifting lazily across it .