four o'clock
Though worn with fatigue , excitement would not allow him more than a snatch of sleep now and then . When at length he stepped out at Dunfield , he was in sorry plight . He went to an hotel , refreshed himself as well as he could , and made inquiry about the Baxendales ' address . At four o'clock he presented himself at the house , and sent in a card to Beatrice . The Baxendales lived in St. Luke 's , which we already know as the fashionable quarter of Dunfield . Their house stood by itself , with high walls about it , enclosing a garden ; at the door were stone pillars , the lower half painted a dull red . It seemed the abode of solid people , not troubled with scruples of taste .