three o’clock
He returned home , softly musing . A tone lingered in his ear ; he recalled the countenance of one absent . In his dressing-room he lingered before he retired , with his arm on the mantel-piece , and gazing with abstraction on the fire . When his servant called him , late in the morning , he delivered to him a card from Mrs. Guy Flouncey , inviting him on that day to Craven Cottage , at three o'clock : ` déjeûner at four o'clock precisely . ' Tancred took the card , looked at it , and the letters seemed to cluster together and form the countenance of Lady Constance . ` It will be a good thing to go , ' he said , ` because I want to know Lord Fitz-Heron ; he will be of great use to me about my yacht . ' So he ordered his carriage at three o'clock .