two in the afternoon
She was at least able to resist the temptation of asking the boy at the book-stall where she bought `` John Camberwell '' whether the volume was selling rapidly or not . Buddha looked on askance while she read it , all night long and well into the morning . She reached the last page and flung down the book in pure physical exhaustion , with the framework of half a dozen reviews in her mind . When she awoke , at two in the afternoon , she decided that she must have another day or two of solitude ; she would not let the Cardiffs know she had returned quite yet . Three days afterward the _ Illustrated Age _ published a review of `` John Camberwell '' which brought an agreeable perplexity to Messrs. Lash and Black . It was too good to compress , and their usual advertising space would not contain it all . It was almost passionately appreciative ; here and there the effect of criticism was obviously marred by the desire of the writer to let no point of beauty or of value escape divination .