Five o'clock
I wish I had left it to Joan . I think they are all most awfully frumpish and stupid , and I ca n't imagine what makes Joan so fond of them ! '' But she did not yet blame herself . * * * * * Five o'clock was the time fixed for return . Had Joan come it would have been much later . At tea-time Fred turned up , and it appeared that he meant to get off the return-row up the river . He had engaged a boatman to do it in his stead .