three o'clock
`` I follow the tactics with which you succeed -- all above-board , and no stratagems . Your own letter brought me ; but perhaps I am too old to be so impatient . Where shall I meet you , and on what day ? '' `` This day fortnight , at the Thornwick Inn , I shall hope to be with you at three o'clock , and perhaps bring somebody with me . If I fixed an earlier day , I should only disappoint you . For many things have to be delicately managed ; and among them , the running of a certain cargo , without serious consequence . For that we may trust a certain very skillful youth .