About seven o'clock
He judged Van Torp to be a good hater and a man of many resources , who would not now be satisfied till he had the anonymous writer of the letter and the article in his power . Logotheti had no means of guessing who the culprit was , and did not care to know . He reached town late in the afternoon , having covered something like three hundred miles since early morning . About seven o'clock he stopped at Margaret 's door , in the hope of finding her at home and of being asked to dine alone with her , but as he got out of his hansom and sent it away he heard the door shut and he found himself face to face with Paul Griggs . ` Miss Donne is out , ' said the author , as they shook hands . ` She 's been spending the day with the Creedmores , and when I rang she had just telephoned that she would not be back for dinner ! ' ` What a bore ! '