nearly two o'clock
I wrote to you at Norland Square several weeks ago , asking you to lunch with me one day at the club , and the letter was returned through the Dead Letter Office , marked ` Gone away -- no address . ' '' `` Ah , yes , I forgot to send you my new address at the time , and ever since moving I have been so overwhelmed with work and a hundred other things that I have really had no time to write . I have been anxiously looking forward to a few hours of leisure to make up all arrears of the kind . '' `` Well , then , as it is nearly two o'clock perhaps you will lunch with me to-day . Is there any place close by where we can get something to eat and drink ? I am all at sea when I get as far east as this . '' `` Thanks , '' said Merton , with a laugh .