About twelve o'clock
` It 's Saturday , you know . I promised to see Newdick this afternoon . Perhaps I may bring him to dinner . ' About twelve o'clock he returned from his business . At two he went away again , saying that he should not be back before seven , it might be a little later . In Monica these movements excited no special remark ; they were merely a continuance of his restlessness . But no sooner had he departed , after luncheon , than she went to her dressing-room , and began to make slow , uncertain preparations for leaving home herself .