three o'clock
It was very brief . The girl was _ not _ out of town , but was stopping near Regent 's Park with an elderly maternal aunt who lived in Portland Terrace , and was addicted to the companionship of cockatoos and cats , not to speak of a brace of overfed , half-blind pugs . `` I am in exile , '' the letter concluded , `` and the dragon is a watchful jailer . But she sleeps in the afternoon , and at three o'clock to-morrow I will be inside the Charles street gate . '' `` To-morrow '' meant to-day , and until lunch time Jack 's brush flew energetically over the canvas . He was at the trysting-place at the appointed hour , and Madge was there waiting for him , so ravishingly dressed that he could scarcely resist the temptation to gather her in his arms . As they strolled through the park he rather gloomily described his visit from Stephen Foster , but the girl 's half-smiling , half-tearful look of affection reassured him .