five o’clock
` She 's worthy of Shakespeare 's sweet epithet , the `` daintiest Kate in Christendom . '' Here 's her health ! ' and he stooped down , and filling his palm with the running water , drank it off . ` I see it 's not yet five o'clock . We 'll steal quietly off to bed , and have three or four hours sleep before we show ourselves . ' Cecil Walpole occupied the state-room and the state-bed at Kilgobbin Castle ; but the pain of a very serious wound had left him very little faculty to know what honour was rendered him , or of what watchful solicitude he was the object . The fever brought on by his wound had obliterated in his mind all memory of where he was ; and it was only now -- that is , on the same morning that the young men had arrived at the castle -- that he was able to converse without much difficulty , and enjoy the companionship of Lockwood , who had come over to see him and scarcely quitted his bedside since the disaster .