three o'clock
`` The passenger trains crossed the creek over the switchbacks hours ago , and they say the emergency grades are first-rate , '' said Marion Sinclair , on the defensive . `` The stock trains must have followed right along . Your cousin is sure to be here pretty soon . Probably Mr. McCloud will know which train he is on , and Mr. Lee telephoned that Mr. McCloud would be over here at three o'clock for his dinner . He ought to be here now . '' `` Oh , dear , then I must go ! '' `` But he can probably tell you just when your cousin will be in . ''