four o’clock
Why not , then , now that the time had come , pay up gallantly , and remember of the episode only what had made it seem so supremely worth the cost ? He sent a pneumatic telegram to Mrs. Nicholas Lansing to say that he would call on her that afternoon at four . `` That ought to give us time , '' he reflected drily , `` to ` settle things , ' as she calls it , without interfering with Strefford 's afternoon visit . '' HER husband 's note had briefly said : `` To-day at four o'clock . N.L. '' All day she pored over the words in an agony of longing , trying to read into them regret , emotion , memories , some echo of the tumult in her own bosom . But she had signed `` Susy , '' and he signed `` N.L. '' That seemed to put an abyss between them . After all , she was free and he was not .