about three o'clock
`` I shall be in to-morrow afternoon , -- but perhaps you 're not free till evening . '' `` Oh , I can choose my hours ; I have nothing to do to-morrow afternoon . '' -LRB- `` Evidently a gentleman of leisure , '' thought Larcher . -RRB- So it was settled that he should call about three o'clock , an appointment which Mr. Kenby , whose opinion of Larcher had not changed since their first meeting , viewed with decided lack of interest . When Larcher left , a few minutes later , he was so far under the spell of the newcomer 's amiability that he felt as if their acquaintance were considerably older than three-quarters of an hour . Nevertheless , he kept ransacking his memory for the circumstances in which he had before heard the name of Turl . To be sure , this Turl might not be the Turl whose name he had heard ; but the fact that he _ had _ heard the name , and the coincidences in his observation of the man himself , made the question perpetually insistent .