half past one
`` Not in the least , as long as I too am taken out sometimes . '' Laverick smiled and sat on the arm of her chair . `` Miss Zoe , '' he said , `` I have come because you told me to , just to prove , you see , that I am not in the toils of Mademoiselle Idiale . But do you know that it is half past one ? I must not stay here any longer . '' She sighed once more . `` You are right , '' she admitted , `` but it is so lonely .