four o'clock
`` The first failure ! '' he said to himself in a disappointed tone . `` But it can hardly be said to be my fault this time . '' His next engagement was an appointment to dine with Mr. Stephens at four o'clock , and with that , too , he was a little behind time . `` Well , sir , '' said Mr. Stephens , meeting him in the hall , `` as sure as I 'm alive you are five minutes behind time ! I begin to be encouraged . It seems that you _ are _ a compound of flesh and blood after all . ''