four o'clock in the afternoon
`` I say , if it was only two o'clock , or three , I would n't go . '' `` You would n't ? I 'll tell you about me : I 'd go if it was twelve o'clock at night and twenty below zero to ride home with that lady . '' `` Feller , '' said Smith , in a paternal tone , `` you never want to make a break at a woman before four o'clock in the afternoon . You might just as well go and lay down under a bush in the shade from a little after daylight until about this time . You would n't hunt deer or elk in the middle of the day , would you ? No , nor women -- all same kind of huntin ' .