three o'clock
That action of memory which he had tried to set going , and had abandoned in despair , had suddenly completed itself without conscious effort -- a common experience , agreeable as a completed sneeze , even if the name remembered is of no value . Raffles immediately took out his pocket-book , and wrote down the name , not because he expected to use it , but merely for the sake of not being at a loss if he ever did happen to want it . He was not going to tell Bulstrode : there was no actual good in telling , and to a mind like that of Mr. Raffles there is always probable good in a secret . He was satisfied with his present success , and by three o'clock that day he had taken up his portmanteau at the turnpike and mounted the coach , relieving Mr. Bulstrode 's eyes of an ugly black spot on the landscape at Stone Court , but not relieving him of the dread that the black spot might reappear and become inseparable even from the vision of his hearth . `` Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore ; Per che si fa gentil ciò ch ` ella mira : Ov ` ella passa , ogni uom ver lei si gira , E cui saluta fa tremar lo core . Sicchè , bassando il viso , tutto smore , E d'ogni suo difetto allor sospira : Fuggon dinanzi a lei Superbia ed Ira : Aiutatemi , donne , a farle onore . Ogni dolcezza , ogni pensiero umile Nasce nel core a chi parlar la sente ; Ond ' è beato chi prima la vide .