four o'clock
The rushlight flickered in the basin . The mantelpiece cast up a great black shadow , over half of a mouldy old sampler , which her defunct ladyship had worked , no doubt , and over two little family pictures of young lads , one in a college gown , and the other in a red jacket like a soldier . When she went to sleep , Rebecca chose that one to dream about . At four o'clock , on such a roseate summer 's morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful , the faithful Tinker , having wakened her bedfellow , and bid her prepare for departure , unbarred and unbolted the great hall door -LRB- the clanging and clapping whereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street -RRB- , and taking her way into Oxford Street , summoned a coach from a stand there . It is needless to particularize the number of the vehicle , or to state that the driver was stationed thus early in the neighbourhood of Swallow Street , in hopes that some young buck , reeling homeward from the tavern , might need the aid of his vehicle , and pay him with the generosity of intoxication . It is likewise needless to say that the driver , if he had any such hopes as those above stated , was grossly disappointed ; and that the worthy Baronet whom he drove to the City did not give him one single penny more than his fare . It was in vain that Jehu appealed and stormed ; that he flung down Miss Sharp 's bandboxes in the gutter at the ` Necks , and swore he would take the law of his fare .