three o'clock
My business is to answer cable messages from San Francisco , so that the people who visit the home office can see that at least a part of the cable is working . That sometimes impresses them , and they buy stock . There is another chap over in Octavia , who relays all my messages and all my replies to those messages that come to me through him from San Francisco . They never send a message unless they have brought some one to the office whom they want to impress , and who , they think , has money to invest in the Y.C.C. stock , and so we never go near the wire , except at three o'clock every afternoon . And then generally only to say ` How are you ? ' or ` It 's raining , ' or something like that . I 've been saying ` It 's raining ' now for the last three months , but to-day I will say that the new consul has arrived .