about three o'clock
in the afternoon
But we always intended you to marry Lois ! '' PART II CHAPTER I THE TRIUMPH George came into the conjugal bedroom . The hour was about three o'clock in the afternoon . Lois lay on the sofa at the foot of the twin beds . It was perhaps characteristic of her that she sincerely preferred the sofa to her bed . Sometimes in the night , when she could not sleep , she would get up and go sighing to the sofa , and , with nothing but a slippery eiderdown to cover her , sleep perfectly till George arose in the morning .