two o'clock
He had first been interested in Thea Kronborg because of her bluntness , her country roughness , and her manifest carefulness about money . The mention of Harsanyi 's name always made him pull a wry face . For the first time Thea had a friend who , in his own cool and guarded way , liked her for whatever was least admirable in her . Thea was still looking at the musical paper , her grammar unopened on the window-sill , when Bowers sauntered in a little before two o'clock . He was smoking a cheap cigarette and wore the same soft felt hat he had worn all last winter . He never carried a cane or wore gloves . Thea followed him from the reception-room into the studio .