three o’clock
He carefully locked the three envelopes in the drawer of his desk . He saw , on passing , that Lincoln was not in his studio . He asked the footman if Madame Maitland was at home . The reply received was that she was dressing , and that she had ordered her carriage for three o'clock . `` Good , '' said he , `` neither of them will have the slightest suspicion ; I am saved . '' How astonished he would have been could he , while walking leisurely toward his destination , have returned in thought to the smoking-room he had just left ! He would have seen a woman glide noiselessly through the open door , with the precaution of a malefactor !