three o'clock
Afterward , Clayton found that that bit of conversation with Mrs. Haverford took on the unreality of the rest of that twenty-four hours . But one part of it stood out real and hopelessly true . There was n't any answer ! Anna Klein had gone home , at three o'clock that terrible morning , a trembling , white-faced girl . She had done her best , and she had failed . Unlike Graham , she had no feeling of personal responsibility , but she felt she could never again face her father , with the thing that she knew between them . There were other reasons , too .