3 o'clock
It is very disheartening . `` Can you receive another tramp and give him a bed , for I am in low spirits , and so , like every other person in trouble , I come to you , you dear old saint , and already I feel a better man . '' `` Receive you , John ? It is doubtless selfish , but it is not given to you to know how I weary to see your faces , and we shall have much converse together -- there are some points I would like your opinion on -- but first of all , after a slight refreshment , we must go to Mains : behold the aid to memory I have designed '' -- and the Rabbi pointed to a large square of paper hung above Chrysostom , with `` Farewell , George Pitillo , 3 o'clock . '' `` He is the son 's son of my benefactor , and he leaves his father 's house this day to go into a strange land across the sea : I had a service last night at Mains , and expounded the departure of Abraham , but only slightly , being somewhat affected through the weakness of the flesh . There was a covenant made between the young man and myself , that I should meet him at the crossing of the roads to-day , and it is in my mind to leave a parable with him against the power of this present world . '' Then the Rabbi fell into a meditation till the dog-cart came up , Mains and his wife in the front and George alone in the back , making a brave show of indifference .