five o'clock
Now , what am I going to do to-morrow ? I suppose I must go to see her . '' He had visited all the ruins and pondered by all the cromlechs , and was a little weary of historic remains ; the girl was too much in his mind to permit of his doing much writing . He might go to Dublin , where he had business , and in the morning he looked out the trains , but none seemed to suit his convenience , and at five o'clock he was at Laurel Hill listening to Ellen . She was anxious to talk to him about the political opportunity he could seize if he were so minded . `` Men have always believed in fate , '' Ned said , and , interrupting him suddenly she asked him if he would come to see a pretty house in the neighbourhood -- a house that would suit him perfectly , for he must have a house if he intended to go in for politics . They came back in the dusk , talking of painting and papering and the laying out of the garden .