three o'clock
She had to drive it resolutely from her mind . Not that -- never that ! But there must at least be peace and friendship between them . At three o'clock the luncheon was over ; it was half-past three when Leslie and she drove to the Melrose `` cottage '' -- as the fourteen-room , three-story frame house was called . Norma had searched the drive with her eyes as they approached . The gray roadster was not there . There was no sign of Christopher 's hat or coat in the hallway .