five o'clock
`` That is important news , indeed , '' Cathelineau said . `` Well , gentlemen , what do you think had best be done ? '' `` It seems to me that nothing could be better , '' Monsieur de Lescure said . `` The enemy 's column can not start until five o'clock , at the earliest . It will be dark before they can arrive at Saumur . I know the road well . It runs in several places through woods and , where this is not the case , there are high hedges .