three o'clock
It is so difficult for such a girl to understand her own emotions . Her parents persuaded her into wedding Palmer . That was all gone into the past , and now his concern -- their concern -- was only with the blessed future . At three o'clock he began to feel a healthy appetite . He sent for a cab and drove towards the region of restaurants . Had he yielded to the impulse which this morning directed him to Twybridge , he would have arrived in that town not very long after his sister . For that was the aim of Marcella 's journey .