three in the afternoon
Gratitude to the person soothing his unwontedly ruffled temper was the cause of the indiscretion in the amount he gave . It appeared to him that he ought to proceed to Copsley for tidings of Lady Dunstane . Thither he sped by the handy railway and a timely train . He reached the parkgates at three in the afternoon , telling his flyman to wait . As he advanced by short cuts over the grass , he studied the look of the rows of windows . She was within , and strangely to his clouded senses she was no longer Tony , no longer the deceptive woman he could in justice abuse . He and she , so close to union , were divided .