nearly four o'clock in the afternoon
`` Mr. Rochester , I have just discovered the sun is far declined from its meridian , and Pilot is actually gone home to his dinner . Let me look at your watch . '' `` Fasten it into your girdle , Janet , and keep it henceforward : I have no use for it . '' `` It is nearly four o'clock in the afternoon , sir . Do n't you feel hungry ? '' `` The third day from this must be our wedding-day , Jane . Never mind fine clothes and jewels , now : all that is not worth a fillip . ''