three o'clock before
`` Really , I 've forgotten , '' Gresham confessed . `` One should not forget such things if one repeats such rumors , '' Courtney reproved him . Gresham went away both puzzled and annoyed . It was three o'clock before he found Collaton ; and that featureless young man , whose lack of visible eyebrows and lashes was a constant annoyance to the fastidious Gresham , was in a high state of elation . `` Well , we get back your fifteen thousand , '' he exulted after they were safely in Gresham 's apartments . `` Of course Jacobs gets five thousand for engineering the deal , but that gives us five thousand apiece . Jacobs was told -- about eleven o'clock -- that the money was there . ''