five o'clock
`` Your perseverance , under such obstacles , was truly surprising , Miss Taylor ; '' said Hazlehurst . `` Was it not ? We soon wrote our advertisements . Mine was very short : ` Wanted , an agreeable youth , as escort between this and New York , apply this evening , at five o'clock . ' Some were very long and ridiculous ; one was in verse . Well , after we had written them , we opened the doors and windows , and the young gentlemen flocked in again . Then we went in procession , and pinned them up on the curtains .