five o'clock
Very well -- I will bring him along , if you 'd really like to have him , with great pleasure . You 'll call for us , Isabel ? Au revoir , then . '' It was shortly after five o'clock when the Hurds ' butler opened the front door to admit a company of four . These intruders , waiting no bidding and ignoring altogether the fact that one of their number had been forbidden the house , made their cheerful way , headed by Mrs. Wilkinson , into the drawing room , there to greet with effusive welcome a stern-faced , elderly lady , who met them with a broad smile , but who almost instantly , to her own infinite surprise and discomfiture , burst into tears . These rapidly abated , when there was heard a sound in the hall , a sound which the quick ears of Mr. Wilkinson distinguished at once . `` The lion comes ! ''