about two o'clock
`` Disappeared ? '' Philippa repeated . `` What do you mean , Mills ? '' `` I left Mr. Lessingham last night , your ladyship , '' Mills explained , `` in a suit of the master 's clothes and apparently preparing for bed -- I should say this morning , as it was probably about two o'clock . I called him at half past eight , as desired , and found the room empty . The bed had not been slept in . '' `` Was there no note or message ? ''