three o'clock
In due course of time the Medcrofts and Miss Fowler were presented to the distinguished couple . This function was necessarily delayed until Odell-Carney had time to go into the details of a particularly annoying episode of the afternoon . He was telling the story to his friend Rodney , and of course everything was at a standstill until he got through . It seems that Mr. Odell-Carney felt the need of a nap at three o'clock . He gave strict injunctions that there was to be no noise in the halls while he slept , and then went into his room and stretched out . Anyone who has stopped at the Hotel Four Seasons will have no difficulty in recalling the electric hall-bells which serve to attract the chambermaids to given spots . If one needs the chambermaid , he presses the button in his room and a little bell in the hall tinkles furiously until she responds and shuts it off .