half past one
`` Three o'clock , then , '' said Maudlin , getting up . `` So long ! '' and lifting his wood , he went on his way rejoicing . At half past one that afternoon a messenger appeared at Grandoken 's with a letter for Jinnie . Peggy called the girl to the shop . `` Boy 's got something for you , '' she declared . `` It 's a letter , I guess . ''