seven p.m.
`` No , '' answered Alan , thinking of Doris Lancaster . `` And pray believe me , doctor , when I say that I care as little as I hope . '' For which saying Marjorie could have kissed him . The unspeakable Marvel reached London shortly after seven p.m. , -- nearly an hour late . A sleet storm had descended on the Metropolis . He took a four-wheeler to the City . It crawled , but he was glad of the time to rehearse once more the part he had decided to play , during the latter hours of the railway journey .