Fifteen minutes after three
No , dear , I ca n't give you that . Not in this case when your father has denied it . Ah ! Fifteen minutes after three ! Then our friends must be well out of the city by now . '' Lady Gray , as her son still loved to call her , now took her eyes from the clock she had been studying and cast a tender look upon the face of Dorothy . The girl had sprung up from her chair and had fixed her own gaze upon the time-piece while the color left her cheeks and she trembled violently .