five o'clock
` I hope so , ' said Brian . ' `` The rank is but the guinea stamp , the man 's a man for a ' that . '' But the guinea stamp is an uncommonly good thing in its way , I admit . ' These afternoon promenades between four and five o'clock , while the rest of the school was out walking , had been going on for a fortnight , and no harm to Ida had come of her indiscretion . Perhaps she hardly considered how wrong a thing she was doing in violating Miss Pew 's confidence by conduct so entirely averse from Miss Pew 's ideas of good behaviour . The confidence had been so grudgingly given , Miss Pew had been so systematically unkind , that the girl may be forgiven for detesting her , nay , even for glorying in the notion of acting in a manner which would shock all Miss Pew 's dearest prejudices . Her meeting with her lover could scarcely be called clandestine , for she took very little pains to conceal the fact .