two o'clock
Young as he was , there was a profound solemnity and preoccupation in his methods that suggested that he had a very old head on a juvenile pair of shoulders . As Ralph and his companion stood regarding the queer genius , an attendant came up to Wheels . He touched him politely on the shoulder , and as the lad looked up in a dazed , absorbed way , pointed to the clock in the room . `` You told me to inform you when it was two o'clock , '' spoke the attendant . `` Did I , now ? '' said Wheels in a lost , distressed sort of a way . `` Dear me , what for , I wonder ? ''