About five o'clock
In the sleigh was a man muffled in furs like an Eskimo , leaning out and questioning Jim . `` When did she come ? '' asked the man . `` About five o'clock , '' answered Jim . Then Mrs. Otis understood that they were talking about the girl in her spare-chamber , and she interposed , standing in the doorway . `` She was just about tuckered out , what with the cold and that awful tramp , '' said she . `` She most ought to have rode over . ''