five o'clock
On , on it poured relentlessly , with blinding lightning and deafening peals of thunder . Hour after hour ! Would it never cease ? At last a lull between four and five o'clock , and , as the tempest rolled murmuring away , the dispirited friends began their preparations for returning . Six o'clock before all had reached the inn . Where were the driver and Mark ? Another tedious hour before they appeared , and each manifestly the worse for liquor .