two o'clock
Thence , after some brief but very agreeable business , and a hurried inspection of the `` Court '' section of a London Directory , he drove to a telegraph station and despatched two messages . They were identical in terms . One sought General Kervick at his residence -- he was in lodgings somewhere in the Hanover Square country -- and the other looked for him at his club . Both begged him to lunch at the Savoy at two o'clock . There was time and to spare , now . Thorpe dismissed the cab at his hotel -- an unpretentious house in Craven Street , and sent his luggage to his rooms . There were no letters for him on the board in the hallway , and he sauntered up to the Strand .