about five o'clock
He rose from his rock and offered his hand to help them off theirs . `` To-day enjoyment , '' he said , `` to-morrow business . I 'm crazy , '' he added artfully , `` to see what the country is like away up in those hills . '' And so it was that about five o'clock that afternoon , having spent the whole day exploring the charming environs of Acapulco , -- having been seen at different periods going over the Old Mission in tow of a monk who would n't look at them but kept his eyes carefully fixed on the ground , sitting on high stools eating strange and enchanting ices at the shop in the town that has the best ices , bathing deliciously in the warm sea at the foot of a cliff along the top of which a great hedge of rose-coloured geraniums flared against the sky , lunching under a grove of ilexes on the contents of a basket produced by Mr. Twist from somewhere in the car he had hired , wandering afterwards up through eucalyptus woods across the fields towards the foot of the mountains , -- they came about five o'clock , thirsty and thinking of tea , to a delightful group of flowery cottages clustering round a restaurant and forming collectively , as Mr. Twist explained , one of the many American forms of hotel . `` To which , '' he said , `` people not living in the cottages can come and have meals at the restaurant , so we 'll go right in and have tea . '' And it was just because they could n't get tea -- any other meal , the proprietress said , but no teas were served , owing to the Domestic Help Eight Hours Bill which obliged her to do without domestics during the afternoon hours -- that Anna-Felicitas came by her great idea . But she did n't come by it at once .