three o'clock
No married lady should have indited such an epistle to a single man . It said , with other things which I decline to repeat , that I was her good fairy . As a sample of the deliberate falsehoods in it , I may mention that she said David loved me already . She hoped that I would come in often to see her husband , who was very proud of my friendship , and suggested that I should pay him my first visit to-day at three o'clock , an hour at which , as I happened to know , he is always away giving a painting-lesson . In short , she wanted first to meet me alone , so that she might draw the delicious , respectful romance out of me , and afterward repeat it to him , with sighs and little peeps at him over her pocket-handkerchief . She had dropped what were meant to look like two tears for me upon the paper , but I should not wonder though they were only artful drops of water . I sent her a stiff and tart reply , declining to hold any communication with her .