four o'clock
How is Helen Bellew ? Is she in town ? `` Your affectionate cousin , `` MARGERY PENDYCE . '' It was four o'clock this same afternoon when the second groom , very much out of breath , informed the butler that there was a fire at Peacock 's farm . The butler repaired at once to the library . Mr. Pendyce , who had been on horseback all the morning , was standing in his riding-clothes , tired and depressed , before the plan of Worsted Skeynes . `` What do you want , Bester ? ''