about three o'clock in the afternoon
He was aware of her attitude ; he was aware , further , that it would be their attitude at Wandsworth . They would all treat him like that , as if he were bereaved . They would not lose , nor allow him to lose for an instant , their awestruck sense of it . That was why he dreaded going there , why he had put it off till the last possible moment , which was about three o'clock in the afternoon . His Uncle Randall would be there . He would have to be told . He might as well tell him while he was about it .