midday
`` I only hope , '' Peter murmured , `` that I may be in a position to dream after it . '' The Marquis de Sogrange arrived in Berkeley Square with the gray dawn of an October morning , showing in his appearance and dress few enough signs of his night journey . Yet he had traveled without stopping from Paris , by fast motor car and the mail boat . `` They telephoned me from Charing Cross , '' Peter said , `` that you could not possibly arrive until midday . The clerk assured me that no train had yet reached Calais . '' `` They had reason in what they told you , '' Sogrange remarked , as he leaned back in a chair and sipped the coffee which had been waiting for him in the Baron de Grost 's study . `` The train itself never got more than a mile away from the Gare du Nord .