a quarter past two
Berry , usually somnolent at this hour , sat upon the club kerb and toyed with _ The Times _ . Jonah fidgeted with a refractory pipe . Daphne glanced from the clock to her novel and the novel to the clock at intervals of fifteen seconds , and I wrote four letters to the War Office about my gratuity , and very properly destroyed them as incoherent one after another . At a quarter past two , by common consent , I visited Jill to see if she was asleep ... . When I made my report we reminded one another that Mr. Lewis had said between two and three , and agreed that it was early as yet . At half-past two Daphne left the room and did not return . At twenty minutes to three I made no attempt to disguise my uneasiness , and joined my cousin and sister in the dining-room .