seven o’clock
Mr. Winkle had not yet sufficiently recovered the recollection of his evidence at the trial , to make any observation on any subject , so Mr. Pickwick paused in vain . ` Well , ' said that gentleman , ` if you leave me to suggest our destination , I say Bath . I think none of us have ever been there . ' Nobody had ; and as the proposition was warmly seconded by Perker , who considered it extremely probable that if Mr. Pickwick saw a little change and gaiety he would be inclined to think better of his determination , and worse of a debtor 's prison , it was carried unanimously ; and Sam was at once despatched to the White Horse Cellar , to take five places by the half-past seven o'clock coach , next morning . There were just two places to be had inside , and just three to be had out ; so Sam Weller booked for them all , and having exchanged a few compliments with the booking-office clerk on the subject of a pewter half-crown which was tendered him as a portion of his ` change , ' walked back to the George and Vulture , where he was pretty busily employed until bed-time in reducing clothes and linen into the smallest possible compass , and exerting his mechanical genius in constructing a variety of ingenious devices for keeping the lids on boxes which had neither locks nor hinges . The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey -- muggy , damp , and drizzly . The horses in the stages that were going out , and had come through the city , were smoking so , that the outside passengers were invisible .