three o'clock
`` You did say the Countess , did n't you ? '' Denry asked . `` Why , certainly , '' said the Captain , testily . `` Well , '' said the schoolgirl with the nonchalant thoughtless cruelty of youth , `` considering that we all saw the Countess off in the funicular at three o'clock , I do n't see how you could have been ski-ing with her when it was nearly dark . '' And the child turned up the hill with her luge , leaving her elders to unknot the situation . `` Oh , yes ! '' said Denry .