six o'clock
He turned to Miss Childe and laid a hand on her arm . `` Shut your eyes , my dear , and repeat one of Alfred Austin 's odes . This place is full of the ungodly . '' * * * * * My determination to carry the tallboy chest to London in the Rolls met with stern opposition , but in the end I prevailed , and at six o'clock that evening it was safely housed in Mayfair . To do him justice , Berry 's annoyance was considerably tempered by the strange story which I unfolded during a belated tea . The house and park which I had seen we were unable to identify , and the Post Office Guide was silent as to the whereabouts of Colt . But the excitement which Daphne 's production of a tape-measure aroused was only exceeded by the depression which was created by our failure to discover anything unusual about the chest .