About three o'clock
`` By my halidom ! '' and all the rest of the sweepings and tailings of Scott and the third-rate romanticists . `` Declined , '' said Rosella , firmly , tossing it aside . She turned to 1124 : `` About three o'clock of a roseate day in early spring two fashionables of the softer sex , elegantly arrayed , might have been observed sauntering languidly down Fifth Avenue . '' ` Are you going to Mrs. Van Billion 's musicale tonight ? ' inquired the older of the two , a tall and striking demi-brunette , turning to her companion . '' ` No , indeed , ' replied the person thus addressed , a blonde of exquisite coloring .