about midday
Still they would naturally have been of immense help to me now if I could have got hold of them . Clear as the main details were in my mind , I saw I should have to go over a good bit of old ground before I could make out the exact list of my requirements which McMurtrie needed . All that afternoon and the whole of the following day I stuck steadily to my task . I had little to interrupt me , for with the exception of Sonia who brought me up my meals , and the old deaf-and-dumb housekeeper who came to do my room about midday , I saw or heard nobody . McMurtrie did not appear again , and Savaroff , as I knew , was away in London . I took an hour off in the evening for the purpose of studying the _ Daily Mail _ , which proved to be quite as entertaining as the previous issue . There were two and a half columns about me altogether , the first consisting of a powerful if slightly inaccurate description of how I had stolen the bicycle , and the remainder dealing with various features of my crime and my escape .