three o'clock
Her glance lingered on the last words : `` Ever your own '' ; and she repeated them to herself aloud and in a tender tone , and called to mind similar words which he had spoken the previous evening . She concocted a letter which was surely on the point of arriving and would certainly be couched in these terms : `` My dearest Bertha ! Heaven be thanked that you are going to remain in Vienna until to-morrow ! I shall expect you for certain at my house at three o'clock , '' or : `` to-morrow we will spend the whole day together , '' or even ; `` I have put off the appointment I had , so we can still see each other to-day . Come to me at once ; longingly I am waiting for you ! '' Well , whatever his answer might be , she would see him again before leaving Vienna , although not that day perhaps . Indeed , anything else was quite unthinkable .