three o’clock in the afternoon
The last two days of the voyage Bartley found almost intolerable . The stop at Queenstown , the tedious passage up the Mersey , were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience . He had planned to stop in Liverpool ; but , instead , he took the boat train for London . Emerging at Euston at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon , Alexander had his luggage sent to the Savoy and drove at once to Bedford Square . When Marie met him at the door , even her strong sense of the proprieties could not restrain her surprise and delight . She blushed and smiled and fumbled his card in her confusion before she ran upstairs . Alexander paced up and down the hallway , buttoning and unbuttoning his overcoat , until she returned and took him up to Hilda 's living-room .