three o'clock
`` Coggan , suppose we keep this night 's work as quiet as we can ? '' `` I am of one and the same mind . '' `` Very well . We shall be home by three o'clock or so , and can creep into the parish like lambs . '' Bathsheba 's perturbed meditations by the roadside had ultimately evolved a conclusion that there were only two remedies for the present desperate state of affairs . The first was merely to keep Troy away from Weatherbury till Boldwood 's indignation had cooled ; the second to listen to Oak 's entreaties , and Boldwood 's denunciations , and give up Troy altogether . Alas !