about
three o'clock
`` Is Miss Lynda in ? '' he asked , for they all clung to the titles of the old days . `` Not yet , Mister Con . She went out in a deal of a hurry long about three o'clock . She did n't say a word -- and that 's agin her pleasant fashion -- so I took it that she had business that fretted her . She 's been in the workshop all day . '' Thomas put the plates in place .