three o'clock
I should not have dared to write . How noble you are ! -- but then I always knew that . I can not come tomorrow -- you know why -- but the next day I will be with you at three o'clock , if you do n't tell me that the hour is inconvenient . ' They met at the appointed time . Mrs. Carnaby 's fine sense of the becoming declared itself in dark array ; her voice was tenderly subdued ; the pressure of her hand , the softly lingering touch of her lips , conveyed a sympathy which perfect taste would not allow to become demonstrative . Alma could at first say nothing .