about four o'clock
`` I fail to see the need of more words . You have asked for deeds , and you shall have them . When and where do you propose that this encounter shall take place ? '' `` To-morrow morning -- about four o'clock -- on the sands between Calais and Wissant . '' In spite of all that had gone before , Medenham was unprepared for this categorical answer . Were he in full possession of his faculties he must have seen the trap into which he was being decoyed . Unhappily , Vanrenen 's letter had helped to complete the lure , and he was no longer amenable to the dictates of cold reason .