two o'clock
He suffered a vast impatience until he should see her again . He had touches , this morning , of incredulous astonishment before the fact that he could love and be loved . He felt once or twice that this promise of happiness would prove an illusion , something he had dreamed , if he did not soon verify it by sight and speech . He was to call for her at two o'clock . They had planned to take a Fourth Avenue car to the end of the line and walk thence past the Jericho Club grounds and out a driveway that left the houses of the town far behind , a road that went winding along the gentle curve of a shore line where the Gulf swell whispered or thundered , according to the weather . Doris was a good walker . On the level road she kept step without faltering or effort , holding Hollister 's hand , not because she needed it for guidance , but because it was her pleasure .