five o'clock
So it was , with both their hearts breaking , they met in the sitting-room . `` I have only ten minutes , '' he said constrainedly . `` The motor is at the door . I have to go round by Bury St. Edmunds ; it is an hour out of my way , and I must be in London at five o'clock , as I leave for Paris by the night mail . Will you sit down , please , and I will be as brief as I can . '' She fell , rather than sank , into a chair . She felt a singing in her ears ; she must not faint -- she was so very weak from her recent illness .