three o'clock in the afternoon
Arthur stopped boxin ' and looked at him so reproachful that Scanlan refused to mention it again . He said he looked just like a kid that come down Christmas mornin ' and found no tree . Finally , me and the Kid packed up and kissed the sanitarium good-by , but every afternoon at three we went over and Scanlan put on the gloves with Arthur for a while , because I had give my word to his girl . Arthur got so he lived all the rest of the day and night lookin ' forward to three o'clock in the afternoon . He snarled at the doctors , cuffed the orderlies , did n't know Miss Woods from the iron gate that kept him in there , but the minute Scanlan breezed into the yard with the gloves his face would be one big smile . This went on for three months -- and then Miss Vincent stepped into the thing . She wanted to know where the Kid was goin ' every afternoon at three o'clock , and like a simp , I told her the whole story .