three o'clock in the
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And it 's as well to give the gentlemen time to prepare . '' `` Lawyers do n't make mistakes , '' said Miss Jemima : `` And as for preparing , you may be sure they have done that already . '' But nothing could induce `` Cobbler '' Horn to hasten his movements ; and his sister was fain to content herself with his promise to write to the lawyers the next day , which he duly fulfilled . The day on which `` Cobbler '' Horn had proposed to the lawyers to pay them his promised visit , was the following Monday , at three o'clock in the afternoon , and by return of post there came a letter from the lawyers assenting to the arrangement . During the week which intervened , `` Cobbler '' Horn did not permit either himself or his sister to mention to a third person the change his circumstances had undergone . Nor did he encourage conversation between his sister and himself on the subject of his suddenly acquired wealth . And neither his manner of life nor the ordering of his house gave any indication of the altered position in which he was placed .