two o'clock
It 's interesting . It 's John Benham 's brief for masculine purity with a few remarks -LRB- not taken from Hegel -RRB- upon the education and training of the child . '' We had reached the corner of the street when he stopped and took out his watch . `` Unfortunately this is the Thursday that I work , '' he laughed , `` and it 's past two o'clock , so good-by . I 'll stop in for you tomorrow , '' and with a flourish of the hand he left me . Still dubious as to the whole matter , which had left me rather bewildered , when I reached my shabby room I took out the envelope which Ballard had handed me and read the curious paper that it contained . As I began reading this remarkable document -LRB- neatly typed and evidently copied from the original in John Benham 's own hand -RRB- I recognized some of the marks of the Platonic philosophy and read with immediate attention .