two o'clock
`` I was walking through the side entrance of the Prince William Hotel yesterday , Abe , just on my way down to see you , when I seen it a lady sitting on a bench , looking like she would like to cry only for shame for the people . Well , Abe , I looked again , Abe , and would you believe it , Abe , it was Miss Atkinson , what used to work for me as saleswoman and got a job by The Golden Rule Store , Elmira , as assistant buyer , and is now buyer by Moe Gerschel , The Emporium , Duluth . '' Abe nodded ; he knew what was coming . `` So , naturally , I asks her what it is the matter with her , and she says Potash & Perlmutter had an appointment to take her out in an oitermobile at two o'clock , and here it was three o'clock already and they ai n't showed up yet . Potash & Perlmutter is friends of mine , Miss Atkinson , I says , and I 'm sure something must have happened , or otherwise they would not of failed to be here . So I says for her to ring you up , Abe , and find out . But she says she would see you first in -- she would n't ring you up for all the oitermobiles in New York .