three p.m.
One knows the style . It eases the mind of the writer and does not deceive the reader . When the reader is Rosalind Hilary it amuses her vastly . Next day , at three p.m. , Mrs. Hilary told Mr. Cradock all about it . Mr. Cradock was not in the least surprised . Nor had he the slightest , not the remotest doubt that Nan and Stephen Lumley were doing what Mrs. Hilary called living in sin , what he preferred to call obeying the natural ego . -LRB- After all , as any theologian would point out , the terms are synonymous in a fallen world . -RRB-