three o'clock
`` When I 've known you as long -- may be . '' `` While I am gone , Uncle Nic , you are to get well , you are not very well , you know . '' `` What put that into your head ? '' `` If you were well you would be smoking a cigar -- it is just three o'clock . This kiss is for myself , this is for Scruff , and this is for Miss Naylor . '' She stood upright again ; a tremulous , joyful gravity was in her eyes and on her lips . `` Good-bye , my dear ; take care of yourselves ; and do n't you have a guide , they 're humbugs . ''