three o'clock
He never saw Miss Tarrant again . Their correspondence ceased after his marriage , and he gathered that she had no longer any use for him . APPEARANCES All afternoon since three o'clock he had sat cooling his heels in a corner of the hotel veranda . And all afternoon he had been a spectacle of interest to the beautiful cosmopolitan creature who watched him from her seat under the palm tree in the corresponding corner . She had two men with her , and when she was not occupied with one or both of them she turned her splendid eyes , gaily or solemnly , on Oscar Thesiger . And every time she turned them Thesiger in his corner darkened and flushed and bit his moustache and twirled it , while his eyes answered hers as he believed they meant him to answer .