five o’clock
`` My dear , '' interrupted Simon . `` Do n't ` my dear ' me , '' said Meg fiercely . `` I have made up my mind , so there 's an end . We meet by the Boshhuysen at five o'clock at the big oak in the copse , where we will settle the details . '' After this Simon said no more , for he had this virtue , so useful in domestic life -- he knew when to yield . On this same morning Adrian rose late . The talk at the supper table on the previous night , especially Foy 's coarse , uneducated sarcasm , had ruffled his temper , and when Adrian 's temper was ruffled he generally found it necessary to sleep himself into good humour .