three o'clock
Never , sure , was any maiden 's perverse heart under so little command as mine ! -- It gave itself away , at first , without my leave ; it has been , for weeks , pressing me with its wishes ; and yet now , when it should be happy itself , and make me so , it is throb , throb , throb , like a little fool ! and filling me with such unseasonable misgivings , as abate the rising comforts of all my better prospects . Thursday , near three o'clock . I thought I should have found no time nor heart to write again this day . But here are three gentlemen come , unexpectedly , to dine with my master ; and so I shall not appear . He has done all he could , civilly , to send them away ; but they will stay , though I believe he had rather they would not .