three o'clock
`` I 'll pay that for any you have , Mrs. Holton , '' he threw out at a venture , feeling that it was a `` safe '' play . `` Then I have twenty of them , and I believe I 'll sell . You may bring me a check to-morrow . I shall have the bonds here at , say , three o'clock . '' She glanced carelessly at the watch on her wrist , and murmured something about Phil 's delay . The bond transaction was concluded , so far as she was concerned ; she spoke now of the reported illness of the Czar . She had visited St. Petersburg and appeared to be conversant with Russian politics .