three o'clock
We were quite passive in the matter . Going , she had guided us with a careless confidence which shamed suspicion . But coming back , she had early displayed unmistakable signs of hesitation and anxiety . Thereafter she had plunged desperately , with the result that at three o'clock we found ourselves reduced to a swine-herd who had been drinking . The latter detailed to us four several routes , and assured us that it was utterly impossible to miss any one of them . To put it quite shortly , he was mistaken . Within half an hour we had missed them all .