five o'clock
If you bring me the writing of any one else , I shall be sure to detect you . I have not any more time now ; as to arithmetic , we 'll examine you in ` some of it ' to-morrow . ' So Charley , with a faint heart , went back to his cousin 's lodgings and waited till the two friends had arrived from the Weights and Measures . The men there made a point of staying up to five o'clock , as is the case with all model officials , and it was therefore late before he could get himself properly set to work . But when they did arrive , preparations for calligraphy were made on a great scale ; a volume of Gibbon was taken down , new quill pens , large and small , and steel pens by various makers were procured ; cream-laid paper was provided , and ruled lines were put beneath it . And when this was done , Charley was especially cautioned to copy the spelling as well as the wording . He worked thus for an hour before dinner , and then for three hours in the evening , and produced a very legible copy of half a chapter of the ` Decline and Fall . '