two o'clock
After breakfast Alfred sat in the first-class patients ' room and counted the minutes and the hours till Edward should come . After dinner he counted the hours till tea-time . Nobody came ; and he went to bed in such grief and disappointment as some men live to eighty without ever knowing . But when two o'clock came next day , and no Edward , and no reply , then the distress of his soul deepened . He implored Mrs. Archbold to tell him what was the cause . She shook her head and said gravely , it was but too common ; a man 's nearest and dearest were very apt to hold aloof from him the moment he was put into an asylum . Here an old lady put in her word .