a quarter to three
Marie smiled at him sweetly and softly ; and as her husband 's eyes met hers a beautiful look of love and understanding flashed from the hidden soul of the woman to the soul of the man . Vanno saw it , and thrilled . So would it be with him and the girl he loved . The motor was ordered for the Princess at a quarter to three . She wished to arrive early at Mrs. Winter 's , in order to have her chat with Miss Grant before tea time . Her idea was to ask only for the guest , not for the hostess , and be ready to leave before the hour when extraneous and irrelevant guests might be expected to invade the chaplain 's drawing-room . There was , it appeared , a telephone in the apartment-house where the Winters lived , and Vanno , getting into communication with Mary after numerous difficulties , begged her to be in , and if possible alone , for a visit from his sister-in-law .