three o'clock
Jimmie jumped out of the trap , paid the account , and dashed over to the station . His arrival was timely , for he learned that a through London train was due in ten minutes . During the interval he found some vent for his impatience in sending a wire to Sir Lucius Chesney , as follows : `` Success ! Back in town at three o'clock . '' Never had a railway journey seemed so long and tiresome to Jimmie as that comparatively short one , in a fast train , from Pevensey to London . He had a book and a newspaper , but he could not read ; he smoked like a furnace , and glared from the window at the flying landscape . He reached Victoria station at five minutes past three , and just outside the gates he met Sir Lucius .