About two o'clock in the afternoon
And so that interview ended . Meanwhile , Alden Lytton sped on toward the city . He traveled by the express train , which stopped at but few stations . About two o'clock in the afternoon the train made its longest pause , at a little station about midway between Wendover and Richmond , where it stopped twenty minutes for dinner . Many of the passengers left the train to stretch their cramped limbs or to satisfy their hunger . Alden Lytton got out and went into the waiting-room , when the first form his eye fell upon was that of Mary Grey . She looked pale , weary and harassed , as she sat alone on one of the benches , with a small carpet-bag at her feet .