About two o'clock
`` I am sorry to say that I must give you in charge ; -- unless you will undertake to leave the town without interfering further with Mr. Fletcher either by word or deed . '' `` I will undertake nothing , '' said Lopez . `` The man has insulted my wife , and is a coward . '' About two o'clock on the afternoon of that day Mr. Lopez appeared before the Silverbridge bench of magistrates , and was there sworn to keep the peace to Mr. Fletcher for the next six months . After that he was allowed to leave the town , and was back in London , with his wife in Belgrave Mansions , to dinner that evening . On the day but one after this the ballot was taken , and at eight o'clock on the evening of that day Arthur Fletcher was declared to be duly elected . But Mr. Du Boung ran him very hard .