two o'clock
`` An interest in life . And the privilege of being a brother . '' It would be a singularly hard-headed , cold-hearted person who could set out for Vaucluse without the smallest thrill ; and hard heads and cold hearts do n't `` run in our family . '' As we spun away from the Hotel de l'Europe soon after two o'clock that afternoon I felt that I was largely composed of thrill . Cold as the wind had grown , the thrill kept me warm , mingling in my veins with ozone . Inside the car the middle-aged honeymooners had an air of desperate resignation which the consciousness of doing their duty according to Baedeker gives to tourists . The tap was turned on in the newly invented heating-apparatus in the car floor , through which hot water from the radiator can be made to circulate ; and I wondered , if this extreme measure were resorted to already , what would be left to do when we reached those high , white altitudes of which the chauffeur had been speaking .