four o'clock in the
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`` Your Uncle Richard Underwood , '' said he -- the earlier discussions in the wedded state are usually founded upon relations -- `` is as stupid as he is kind . It was very good of him to arrange that I should meet old Nicholson . Any young fellow in the country would give his eyes for the chance . But to make an appointment for a fellow at four o'clock in the afternoon of his wedding day is a thing of which no one , except your Uncle Richard , would be capable . He might have known that I could n't go . '' `` But you must go , '' urged the bride , `` it 's the chance of a lifetime . Besides which , '' she added with a pretty little air of practicality , `` we ca n't afford to throw away an opportunity like this .