four o'clock
It always seems as if it were its fault . Though I know it 's foolish to think so . And there is the clock striking one , and I shall eat more sandwiches if I stay , so let us put out the light , and go to bed . '' It had been chance pure and simple which happened to take Doctor Hilary to Woodleigh on the day the Duchessa received Trix 's telegram , but it can not be equally said that it was chance which took him to Exeter on the following day , and which made him travel down again to Kingsleigh by the four o'clock train . Also it was certainly not chance which induced him to be on the platform at least a quarter of an hour before the train was due at the station , ready to keep a careful lookout on all the passengers in it . * * * * * Trix had had an uneasy journey from London . She had re-read Miss Tibbutt 's letter at least a dozen times .