about three o'clock in the afternoon
But you need have no fear for me : I shall take means to prevent recognition . '' The envelope was plain and of common texture ; but the note-paper was hand-made ; with a faint , fine odor as of some sweet-smelling Eastern wood , and bore in one corner the letters `` R. R. , '' intertwined in deep blue tints . There was no doubt in Caspar 's mind as to the person from whom it came . He received it about three o'clock in the afternoon . If he wished to decline the proposed interview , he knew that he must write at once . In his heart he knew also that it would be better for him and better for her that the interview should be declined . What had he to do with Rosalind Romaine ?