four o'clock
`` One meets the queerest people in the world there , '' he said ; `` but Tommy Toogood is such a good fellow himself ! '' After that he had his lunch . Then he read the paper , and before he went away he wrote a dozen or two of private notes , presenting Sir Raffle 's compliments right and left , and giving in no one note a single word of information that could be of any use to any person . Having thus earned his salary by half-past four o'clock he got into a hansom cab and had himself driven to Porchester Terrace . Miss Demolines was at home , of course , and he soon found himself closeted with that interesting young woman . `` I thought you never would have come . '' These were the first words she spoke .