three o'clock
She had arrived from Durdlebury all alone , the night before , and was putting up at an hotel . The venerable idiot , with red crosses and bits of tin all over her , who seemed to run the hospital , would n't let her in to see him till the regulation visiting hour of three o'clock . That she , Peggy , was a Dean 's daughter , who had travelled hundreds of miles to see the man she was engaged to , did not seem to impress the venerable idiot in the least . Till three o'clock then . With love from Peggy . `` The lady , I believe , is waiting for an answer , '' said the nurse . `` Oh , my hat ! ''