about four
o'clock
The Prince sprang forward , caught her hands and pressed upon them hot , lingering kisses . `` Into these hands , '' he said , `` I commit my destiny and my honor . '' Half an hour after the incident at Trinity , Armitage hurried from the little ferry boat which had just landed him at the Torpedo Station and made his way to the house of the storekeeper , who was out , of course . He had gone to Providence , his wife said , and would return about four o'clock . Armitage took the key to the shops , only to find when he entered that the storekeeper 's books were in the safe , the combination to which he did not know . This by no means improved his temper and he began to blunder about the office in a dragnet search . Finally , when he found himself kicking over chairs which were in his way in his aimless course , the humor of the situation came to him .