six o'clock
`` Let 's go and buy a hundred things '' -- Roderick groaned -- `` but I wish , Mark , you were n't going to leave us on our first night here ; you know what you said only yesterday ! '' `` What did I say yesterday ? '' `` That there were a lot of bounders in Paris -- and I want to see them bound ! '' I consoled her by telling her that bounders never made display after six o'clock , and assured her that Roderick had long confessed to me his intention to buy her the best hat in Paris , at which Roderick muttered exclamations for my ear only . By that time we were at the hotel , and the Perfect Fool had much to say . `` Could any gentleman oblige me with the time , English or French ? '' he asked ; `` my watch is so moved at the situation in which it finds itself that it is fourteen hours too slow . ''