about four o'clock
Did their quarrel boil down to that ? Anthony March might deny as much as he pleased that he was `` enough of an Olympian to laugh '' at life 's ironies , but it remained true that his God had a sense of humor and that March himself appreciated it . When , well within that same twenty-four hours , a third member of the Wollaston family insisted upon telling him her troubles and asking him what she 'd best do about them , he conceded with the flicker of an inward grin -LRB- not at all at the troubles which were serious enough nor at their sufferer who was in despair -RRB- , that the great Disposer , having set out to demolish that philosophy , enjoyed making a thorough job of it . It was about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon that he came to Paula 's cottage at Ravinia to get the score to _ The Outcry _ . The maid who opened the door informed him that her mistress was n't at home , but when he told her what he wanted , and she had gone rather dubiously up-stairs to see about it , it was Paula herself who , after a wait of ten minutes or so , came down with the manuscript in her hand . He was , perhaps , just the one person in the world she 'd have come down to see . All the explanation she volunteered to herself was that he did n't matter .