about
three o'clock
She called him Jacob by accident and so she 'll call him Jacob on purpose before very long . '' Olga nodded her head up and down in precise reproduction of Mrs Weston . `` I 'd hardly got out of the house , '' she said in exact imitation of Mrs Weston 's voice , `` before I met Colonel Boucher . It would have been about three o'clock -- no it could n't have been three , because I had got back home and was standing in the hall when it struck three , and my clock 's a shade fast if anything . Well ; Colonel Boucher said to me , ` Haw , hum , quite a domestic crisis , by Jove . ' And so I pretended I did n't know , and he told me all about it . So I said ` Well , it is a domestic crisis , and you 'll lose Atkinson . '