three o'clock
`` When I get another shirt . And now I 'll tell you my scheme . When I was about to leave home after breakfast -- if you can call tea and oatmeal breakfast -- Louise told me she was going to visit her aunt in Eighty-ninth Street . She said she would return at three o'clock . She is always on time to a minute . It is now -- '' Dawe glanced toward the editor 's watch pocket . `` Twenty-seven minutes to three , '' said Westbrook , scanning his time-piece .