one o’clock
Wingrave shrugged his shoulders . `` It is perhaps fortunate for the continuation of our mutual relations that you did not think of it , '' he remarked quietly . `` I accept your denial . I shall expect you back at one o'clock . '' At a few minutes after that hour the two men sat down to luncheon . Wingrave at that time was the possessor of six thousand shares in the Royal Hardwell Copper Mine , which had cost him , on an average , two dollars twenty-five . The news of the dealing , however , had got about , and although derision was the chief sentiment amongst the brokers , the price steadily mounted .