ten o'clock
Such was my Mary . Beefsteak For 14 Palace Gardens . Friday was the night of the incident in the library between Bob Chater and Mary ; Saturday the exchange of love in the Park between Mary and her George ; Saturday evening the writing of Mary 's letter ; upon Monday George read it . Now it was Monday morning , and precisely at ten o'clock three persons set out for the same seat in Regent 's Park -- the mind of each filled with one of the others , empty of all thought of the third . Mary -- accompanied by David and Angela -- carried towards the seat the image of her George , but had no heed of Mr. Bob Chater 's existence ; she was the magnet that drew Bob , ignorant of George ; George sped to his Mary and had no thought of Bob . Our young men were handicapped in point of distance . Mary , with but a short half-mile to go , must easily be first to make the seat ; Bob , coming to town from a week-end up the river , would occupy little short of an hour .