three o'clock
`` A very annoying visit . '' `` I saw that she would not tell me the true reason , and as she was very calm , I did not trouble myself any more about it , and hoped to make up for lost time with the other , the next day , and on the Tuesday , I was very ... very excited , and amorous in expectation of the public official 's little wife , and I was surprised that she had not come before the appointed time , and I looked at the clock every moment , and watched the hands impatiently , but the quarter past , then the half-hour , then two o'clock . I could not sit still any longer , and walked up and down very soon in great strides , putting my face against the window , and my ears to the door , to listen whether she was not coming upstairs . '' `` Half-past two , three o'clock ! I seized my hat , and rushed to her house . She was reading a novel my dear fellow ! ` Well ! '