one o'clock
`` It is not my business to discuss Mr. Mallard 's motives . '' `` It certainly is mine -- and yours too , if you care anything for me . '' They reached the hotel without further debate of this subject . It was not much after one o'clock ; all lunched together in private , talking only of Capri . Later they walked to the villa of Tiberius . Elgar kept up an appearance of light-hearted enjoyment ; Cecily was less able to disguise her preoccupation . Mrs. Lessingham seemed to have accepted the inevitable .