three o'clock
`` Why ? '' exclaimed the Clutterbuck cousin , `` who 's the other ? '' `` The Countess , '' said Denry . `` She went this afternoon -- three o'clock . '' And all the Métropole party fell into grief . `` It 's a world of coincidences , '' said Denry , with emphasis . `` You do n't mean to insinuate , '' said Mrs Clutterbuck , with a nervous laugh , `` that Captain Deverax has -- er -- gone after the Countess ? ''