two o'clock
`` Now there 's only the chemist . '' They rode to another street , entered a druggist 's , and the same thing on a smaller scale was repeated , except that here Marina did no tasting , but for a stray gelatine or jujube . By the time the shop door closed behind them , Laura could almost have eaten liquorice powder . It was two o'clock , and she was faint with hunger . `` We 'll be home in plenty of time , '' said Marina , consulting a neat watch . `` Dinner 's not till three today , because of father . '' Again a tramway jerked them forward .