three o'clock
`` Do n't worry , '' she said monotonously . `` There is another adjustment . Just keep happy -- and give me time . '' `` You 've simply got to sneak off on some pretext or another , and meet me at the Doric agency at three o'clock for a demonstration . They say it is perfectly wonderful -- why , it hardly takes a look of gas to go a thousand miles , and its tires are literally cast iron . '' This was her summons by telephone . And Nolan , determined not to desert trusting little Eveley to the tender mercies of motor sharks , went to the Middle Member , whose position he confidently expected one day to possess , and announced that important business of a personal nature required his presence that afternoon .