three o'clock
Should she fail , then she , too , had an idea what a raging woman could do . But her first step now must be with her cousin Mistletoe . She would not write to the Duke till she had seen her cousin . Lord Mistletoe when in London lived at the family house in Piccadilly , and thither early on the Sunday morning she sent a note to say that she especially wished to see her cousin and would call at three o'clock on that day . The messenger brought back word that Lord Mistletoe would be at home , and exactly at that hour the hired brougham stopped at the door . Her mother had wished to accompany her but she had declared that if she could not go alone she would not go at all . In that she was right ; for whatever favour the young heir to the family honours might retain for his fair cousin , who was at any rate a Trefoil , he had none for his uncle 's wife .