two o'clock
`` We 'll get over all that , '' said the major , almost contemptuously . `` It is only the first plunge that is disagreeable . '' Perhaps the major did not know how very disagreeable a first plunge may be ! At two o'clock Henry Grantly got up to go . `` I should very much like to have seen him , but I fear I can not wait longer . As it is , the patience of my horse has been surprising . '' Then Grace walked out with him to the gate , and put her hand upon his bridle as he mounted , and thought how wonderful was the power of Fortune , that the goddess should have sent so gallant a gentleman to be her lord and her lover .