three o'clock
`` I do n't care to . You can tell me . '' The companions then went their several ways , the one in crape walking firmly along with a mien of disconnection from her miscellaneous surroundings . Making inquiries she came to a hoarding , within which were excavations denoting the foundations of a building ; and on the boards without one or two large posters announcing that the foundation-stone of the chapel about to be erected would be laid that afternoon at three o'clock by a London preacher of great popularity among his body . Having ascertained thus much the immensely weeded widow retraced her steps , and gave herself leisure to observe the movements of the fair . By and by her attention was arrested by a little stall of cakes and ginger-breads , standing between the more pretentious erections of trestles and canvas . It was covered with an immaculate cloth , and tended by a young woman apparently unused to the business , she being accompanied by a boy with an octogenarian face , who assisted her .