three
o'clock exactly
There is always one week 's supply in the cellar , and we sell the papers of the week before to the rag men . ' ` Excellent . Well , take the risk of abstracting one day 's journals , and have them ready for me . I will call upon you at half-past three o'clock exactly , and then I want you to take me upstairs to the clerk 's bedroom in the third story , which I suppose is not locked during the daytime ? ' ` No , sir , it is not . ' With this the patient Podgers took his departure . Spenser Hale rose when his assistant left .