four o'clock in the afternoon
When the time comes , I will fix the day to suit your arrangements . '' `` I will try to come down , Major Mallett , if mamma will agree ; but it is a long way to Poole , and somehow one never seems to find an hour to do anything ; so I really can not promise . '' `` Well , if you can not manage it , Miss Greendale , I will have her launched without being named and bring her round to Southampton , and then you could go down and christen her there . That would only be a short railway run of a couple of hours after breakfast , and , say , two hours for luncheon there , and to have a look at her , and you could be home by four o'clock in the afternoon . '' `` That seems more practicable . '' Captain Mallett had been three weeks in town . He had called upon Lady Greendale on the day after he had come up , and been received with the greatest cordiality by her and Bertha .