five o'clock
`` _ Persuaded _ ! '' he exploded , `` A dam ' queer notion of persuasion . Shanghaied , I call it . Ran me to earth at the club at five o'clock , and we sailed at eight . If my man had n't been fond of the sea and keen on the trip himself , I should have left America for a cruise round the world in the clothes I stood up in -- and Jermyn 's duds would be about as useful to me as a suit of reach-me-downs off the line . Persuasion ? Shucks !