one o'clock in the afternoon
Let me do all I can to help my son , before it is too late . '' How could I disobey her ? We took the railway to the town : it was only half an hour 's ride . By one o'clock in the afternoon we reached my house . It was our dinner hour , and Alicia was in the kitchen . I was able to take my mother quietly into the parlor and then to prepare my wife for the visit . She had drunk but little at that early hour ; and , luckily , the devil in her was tamed for the time .