two o'clock
`` Perhaps she does not like being left so long alone . '' Tristram went upstairs with a bitter laugh to himself . He did not go near the sitting-room ; he went straight into the room which had been allotted to himself : and a savage sense of humiliation and impotent rage convulsed him . The next day , the express which would stop for them at Tylling Green , the little station for Montfitchet , started at two o'clock , and the financier had given orders to have an early lunch at twelve before they left . He , himself , went off to the City for half an hour to read his letters , at ten o'clock , and was surprised when he asked Turner if Lord and Lady Tancred had break-fasted to hear that her ladyship had gone out at half-past nine o'clock and that his lordship had given orders to his valet not to disturb him , in his lordship 's room -- and here Turner coughed -- until half-past ten . `` See that they have everything they want , '' his master said , and then went out . But when he was in his electric brougham , gliding eastwards , he frowned to himself .