five o'clock
But while you go and get your luncheon -- I do not lunch myself -- I must try to do something . You must have many matters of your own that you would like to attend to . Will you return to the studio about five o'clock , and let me have your company in another walk ? '' ` Until five o'clock I was quite alone , and wandered about the house and garden trying my memory as to whether I could recall something , but in vain . At any other time than this I should no doubt have found the old house a very fascinating one ; but not for two minutes together could my mind dwell upon anything but the amazing situation in which I found myself . The house was , I saw , built of grey stone , and as it had seven gables it suggested to me Nathaniel Hawthorne 's famous story , of which my aunt was so fond . Inside I found every room to be more or less interesting .