two o'clock
It was a long , well-lighted room , lined with the huge , splendidly decorative posters , signed Chéret and Mucha , which were then just being collected by those who admired that type of flamboyant art . In this apartment Peggy , as Vanderlyn was well aware , never put her feet , for it was there that her husband received his trainer and his sporting friends . Here also was his own private telephone . Lunch was brought to them on a tray , and at two o'clock the butler came with the information that several police officials were in the house interrogating the servants . Far from annoying Pargeter , the fact seemed to afford him some gratification , for it proved that he was after all quite as important a personage as he believed himself to be . He gave orders that the men were to be liberally supplied with drink . An hour later came a high official from the Préfecture .