four o'clock
`` I caught a glimpse of myself in one of Testolini 's mirrors yesterday , '' said the cardinal , `` and I thought I looked rather well . '' `` Your eminence , '' said Pietro , `` you saw your face and not your coat . '' `` Pietro , '' said the cardinal , rising , `` you should have turned your hand to diplomacy ; you would have gone far . '' At half-past four o'clock the cardinal 's barca drew up to the molo . The oarsmen were dressed in black , save that their sashes and stockings were scarlet . The bowman landed . It was as though a footman came off the box of a brougham and waited on the curb .