When we came home we found that a young man had called three times in the course of that one day to see me and that having been told on the occasion of his third call that I was not expected to return before ten o'clock at night, he had left word that he would call about then. 
At home we found that a young man had called three times in the course of that day to see me, and had left word that he would call again that evening. 