three o'clock
Then for hours he seemed to avoid her . She was afraid . Most of all , afraid of her own desire to go to him and wail that he was avoiding her . At three o'clock , when the office tribe accept with naïve gratitude any excuse to talk , to stop and tell one another a new joke , to rush to the window and critically view a parade , Una saw that Walter was beginning to hover near her . She was angry that he did not come straight to her . He did not seem quite to know whether he wanted her or not . But her face was calm above her typing while she watched him peer at her over the shoulder of S. Herbert Ross , to whom he was talking .