three o'clock
`` The Chevalier de St. George -- '' `` The King , sir , the King ! '' said the ladies and Miss Beatrix ; and she clapped her pretty hands , and cried , `` Vive le Roy . '' By this time there came a thundering knock , that drove in the doors of the house almost . It was three o'clock , and the company were arriving ; and presently the servant announced Captain Steele and his lady . Captain and Mrs. Steele , who were the first to arrive , had driven to Kensington from their country-house , the Hovel at Hampton Wick . `` Not from our mansion in Bloomsbury Square , '' as Mrs. Steele took care to inform the ladies . Indeed Harry had ridden away from Hampton that very morning , leaving the couple by the ears ; for from the chamber where he lay , in a bed that was none of the cleanest , and kept awake by the company which he had in his own bed , and the quarrel which was going on in the next room , he could hear both night and morning the curtain lecture which Mrs. Steele was in the habit of administering to poor Dick .