five o'clock
To have held her once -- to have taken her away , to have triumphed over her own calculations , and , best of all , to have triumphed over the money-king resting fatuously confident behind his wealth , dignifying no man as rival who was not rich . The present , so , was more than any possible future , how dire soever it might be . He was mad to prove to her -- and to Shepler -- that she was more a woman than either had supposed , -- a woman in spite of herself , weak , unreasoning ; to prove to them both that a determined man has a vital power to coerce which no money may ever equal . Not until five o'clock had he by turns urged and fought himself to the ferry . By that time he had given up arguing . He was dwelling entirely upon his plan of action . Strive and grope as he would , the thing had driven him on relentlessly .