three o'clock
`` Antoun '' consoled Biddy as well as he could , by saying that no harm would come to Miss Gilder or Miss Guest . Bedr would know too well on which side his bread was buttered to take his clients where insult or danger could reach them . Off `` Antoun '' went to look for the missing ones though , and assured Biddy that she should have news as soon as possible . It was not till three o'clock that she had begun to be very anxious , and had disturbed the harmony of Sir Marcus Lark 's duet with Mrs. East . Even then she would not have spoken had she not feared that the ball would break up , and there would be no man to appeal to ! Sir Marcus had been inclined to smile at the notion of danger ; but he , like Anthony Fenton , was ignorant of any private qualms which troubled Brigit O'Brien . She could not tell him who she was , and that she considered herself far from being a `` mascot '' to her fellow-travellers .