three o'clock
He read Mrs. Avory 's letter again -LRB- she wrote probably the worst hand in Christendom -RRB- , and when he had spelt the ill-formed words once more , he discovered that the blotched and scrawled writing contained a postscript which he had not at first noticed . ` After all , you had better not come here , ' it said , ` but I will run down and see you to-morrow . It is far the best and wisest plan , and I must say good-bye . Please expect me by the three o'clock train . ' The letter , as usual , had not been posted in time to reach him in the morning , and Toffy realized almost with a sense of disaster that to-morrow was now to-day , and that it was too late to write and expostulate or to suggest to Mrs. Avory how unwise her visit would be . There was nothing for it but to order the motor-car and go to the station to meet her , and afterwards to give her tea in the library , and say to her all the comforting and consoling things he could think of . Mrs. Avory appeared more than usually worn and thin this afternoon ; and her eyes , so ready to brim with tears , looked pathetically large in her sallow little face .