about two o'clock
She was better than effusive : kindly and helpful with a certain reserve . `` There 's something about that woman I like , '' said Sophia , to herself . For a proved fool , Amy was indeed holding her own rather well . Dr. Stirling drove down about two o'clock . He had now been established in the Five Towns for more than a decade , and the stamp of success was on his brow and on the proud forehead of his trotting horse . He had , in the phrase of the Signal , ` identified himself with the local life of the district . ' He was liked , being a man of broad sympathies .