one o'clock
Mark , after requesting the Inspector to find a man to go over to Streatham and bring back his horse , and writing an order to the ostler to deliver it , walked across to his lodgings . Upon the whole , he was not sorry that Bastow had taken the matter into his own hands ; he had , certainly , while engaged in the search , looked forward to seeing him in the dock and witnessing his execution , but he now felt that enough had been done for vengeance , and that it was as well that the matter had ended as it had . He was wearied out with the excitement of the last forty-eight hours . It was one o'clock when he awoke , and after dressing and going into Covent Garden to lunch at one of the coffee houses , he made his way up to Islington . `` Taking a day 's holiday ? '' Millicent asked as he came in . `` Well , not exactly , Millicent ; I have left school altogether . ''