noon
Marcella scanned the quay anxiously to find Louis , though Knollys told her that he would , most probably , be in by train to-morrow at noon . But she had an idea that he might have got through earlier , and hurried up to the General Post Office , which he had told her was his only address in the Colonies , to which his letters were sent . But it was a fruitless errand . Enquiry at the station told her that , as Knollys had said , the next train possible for Louis would be in at noon to-morrow . She turned back through the streets that were so extraordinarily like London in spite of Chinese , German and Italian names . As she passed the Post Office for the second time it occurred to her that there might be letters for her there , and found quite a bundle of them in a little pigeonhole high up . There was also a cablegram that had been waiting two days .