three o'clock
The Green Imp , long , low and powerful , carrying besides its two passengers a motor trunk , a number of bulky parcels , and a full share of mud , drew to one side of the road . The fifth April shower of the afternoon was on , although it was barely three o'clock . Redfield Pepper Burns , physician and surgeon , descended from the car , a brawny figure in an enveloping gray motoring coat . He wore no hat upon his heavy crop of coppery red hair -- somewhere under the seat his cap was abandoned , as usual . His face was brown with tan -- a strong , fine face , with dark-lashed hazel eyes alight under thick , dark eyebrows .