three o'clock
At the door she paused and , half turning , looked back across her shoulder , a spot of scarlet on either cheek . `` I had forgotten my message . I had already told Jean Saxe , in case I failed to find you . The Dauphin bids you join him at the Burnt Mill at three o'clock ; but if it were not that the Dauphin 's word is a command , even to you I would say be otherwise engaged , Monsieur La Mothe , since I must be of the party . '' `` But , Mademoiselle -- '' He spoke to an empty room , and if Ursula de Vesc closed the door between them with a greater vigour than the politeness strict deportment demanded she may surely be excused . It may be that even the angels lose their tempers at times over the follies of a blind humanity . As to Stephen La Mothe , he stood staring at the closed door as if he were not only alone in the room but in the very world itself ; or , rather , as if the world had suddenly dropped from under his feet and the shock bewildered him .