nearly one o'clock
Your knowledge of him , recollect , extends over only a short time -- eight or ten months , I suppose . I shall visit his ship and his cabin in H. M. S. Indomitable also , and learn all that his fellow officers can tell me . '' Sir Walter looked at his watch . `` It is now nearly one o'clock , '' he said , `` and at two we usually take luncheon . What would you wish to do between now and then ? None here but ourselves and my butler -- an old friend in all my secrets -- knows you have come professionally . I concealed the fact and called you ` Forbes , ' at your wish , though they can not fail to suspect , I fear . ''