half past four
` Conscience doth make cowards of us all ! ' '' `` You have a sharp wit , sir , '' says Arthur , with apparent lightness , but pale with passion . `` I say , look here , '' breaks in Sir Adrian hastily , pulling out his watch ; `` it must be nearly time for tea . By Jove , quite half past four , and we know what Lady FitzAlmont will say to us if we keep her deprived of her favorite beverage for even five minutes . Come , let us run , or destruction will light upon our heads . '' So saying , he leads the way , and soon they leave the haunted chamber and all its gloomy associations far behind them . Reluctantly , yet with a certain amount of curiosity to know what it is he may wish to say to her , Dora wends her way to the gallery to keep her appointment with Arthur .