five o'clock
Would you believe that a month or two ago , when in town , I dreamed that I heard some one uttering something very much like the words which we have just heard from this old woman ? '' `` Ah ! ha , ha ! '' laughed the doctor ; and , after a second or two 's pause , Aubrey , as if ashamed of what he had said , echoed the laugh , and their conversation passed on to political topics , which kept them engaged for the remainder of their walk , Mr. Aubrey quitting his companion at the door of the vicarage , to be rejoined by him at five o'clock , the dinner hour at the Hall . As Mr. Aubrey walked along the park , the shades of evening casting a deepening gloom around him , his thoughts involuntarily recurred to the cottage of old blind Bess , and he felt vague apprehensions flitting with darkening shade across his mind . Though he was hardly weak enough to attach any definite meaning or importance to the gibberish he had heard , it still had left an unpleasant _ impression _ , and he was vexed at feeling a wish that the incident -- trifling as he was willing to believe it -- should not be mentioned by Dr. Tatham at the Hall ; and still more was he excited when he recollected that he had _ purposely abstained _ from requesting the good doctor not to do so . All this undoubtedly implied that the matter had occupied Mr. Aubrey 's thoughts to a greater extent than he secretly relished .