one o'clock
`` One o'clock , then . '' Jimmy rang off . Sangster felt easier as he sat down to his breakfast . Jimmy 's voice had sounded fairly normal , if a little constrained ; and it was not such a very long time till one o'clock , when he would hear all there was to hear . He forced himself to work all the morning . He did not even glance at a paper ; he knew they would be full of Cynthia Farrow 's accident and tragic death ; he dreaded lest there might be some inadvertent allusion made to Jimmy . He was still hoping that Christine would never know that Jimmy had been sent for ; he rightly guessed that if she heard it would mean a long farewell to any hope of happiness in her married life .