five o'clock
` I am sure she meant it , ' she observed , ` it was only a little too strong . I wonder if that poor youth who came to her first ball , and helped to pick us out of the hole in Bluepost Bridge , had anything to do with it . ' Annaple had an opportunity of judging . Mr. Dutton would not have brought about a meeting which might be painful and unsettling to both ; but one afternoon , when Nuttie was ` off duty ' with her father , and had come in to share Annaple 's five o'clock tea , Gerard Godfrey , looking the curate from head to foot , made his appearance , having come up from the far east , about some call on Mr. Dutton 's purse . The two shook hands with pleased surprise , and a little heightening of colour , but that was all . Nuttie had been out to luncheon , and was dressed ` like a mere fashionable young lady ' in his eyes ; and when , after the classes and clubs and schools of his district had been discussed , he asked , ` And I suppose you are taking part in everything here ? ' ` No , that I ca n't ! '