three o’clock
he exclaimed in accents of dire disappointment . `` Fairy Lady '' was the name he had bestowed upon Magda when , very early in their acquaintance , she had performed for his sole and particular benefit a maturer edition of the dance she had evolved as a child -- the dance with which she had so much astonished Lady Arabella . Nowadays it figured prominently on her programmes as `` The Hamadryad , '' and was enormously popular . `` It 's not never three o'clock ! '' wailed Coppertop disconsolately , as Davilof dangled his watch in front of him . `` I think it is , small son , '' interpolated Gillian , gathering together her sewing materials . `` Come along .