4 o'clock
`` For the very worst ? '' queried Lawrence . `` For anything '' returned Helen `` That 's alright then '' replied Lawrence . `` Mulberry and I are going to tea with the Vermonts this afternoon , but we need not start till 4 o'clock '' said Gladys . `` It would ` nt matter if you were a little late '' answered Lawrence . Just then the victoria stopped and after having helped the ladies to alight , Lawrence went quickly to the study where as Lord Beaufort had predicted an envelope lay waiting to be opened addressed to Lawrence in the dowegor lady Beaufort 's hand writing . Lawrence blushed as he took up the bulky package and retired with it to the privacy of his own bedroom , where we will leave him to read it in silence .