five o'clock
They would call them unmitigated bosh , and set me down as a virulent maniac . No , signori , I am not ambitious , and so I shall not lay myself open to that sort of snubbing . Come across to the other room for cigarettes and vermouth . '' And there we sat till the melancholy chaunt of the _ sereno _ outside told us it was five o'clock , and , with the blessing of God , a fine morning . A certain black box , my one piece of salvage from the wreck at Genoa , came up from the ugly cutter next afternoon , and I am proud to say that my violin added another link between us . For the next three days we had as good a time as one need wish to enjoy . Every evening after his duties at the theatre were over the old Italian called us round his piano , and we feasted on what we all three loved .