about
two o'clock
-- to enter upon his new duties at the school . The boys , as was their wont , had almost without exception left by the eight o'clock train , Arthur and Dig being among the foremost . The few who had remained to finish their packing had followed by the ten o'clock . The doctor and his niece had left for town last night ; the other masters had made an early start that morning ; and Railsford , junior master , and consequently officer of the guard for the day , imagined himself , as he stood there with his portmanteau about two o'clock , the `` last of the Mohicans . '' `` Who is it ? '' he said , as the cab rumbled through the gateway . `` It 's Mr Branscombe , sir .