nearly five o’clock
` I never met two such chatterboxes as you and Polly . ' ` And to hear us talk is a liberal education , ' retorted Polly . ` Exactly , ' said Philip , dryly , ` Come , I 'll take the books and shawls . It 's nearly five o'clock , and we shall hear Hop Yet blowing his lusty dinner-horn presently . ' ` Why did n't you go off shooting with the others ? ' asked Margery . ` Stayed at home so they 'd get a chance to shoot . '