one o'clock
In their unquestioned regularity lurked every sort of human cruelty and meanness , and every kind of humiliation and suffering . He would rather have any woman he cared for wounded than crushed . He would deceive her not once , he told himself fiercely , but a hundred times , to keep her free . When Fred went back to the observation car at one o'clock , after the luncheon call , it was empty , and he found Thea alone on the platform . She put out her hand , and met his eyes . `` It 's as I said . Things have closed behind me .