two o'clock in the afternoon
`` Oh , mercy , I do hope they are n't Indians and we shall all be murdered in our beds ! '' cried Miss Prescott in considerable alarm . The good lady clasped her hands together distractedly . `` We might be murdered in our hammocks , aunt , '' observed Peggy , indicating two gaudy specimens of the hanging lounges which had been suspended under the shade ; `` but only very lazy people could be murdered in bed at two o'clock in the afternoon . '' `` You know perfectly well what I mean , '' Miss Prescott began with dignity , when Alverado , who , like the rest , had been watching the advancing cavalcade eagerly , suddenly announced : `` They vaqueros -- cowboys ! '' `` Cowboys ! '' shrilled Miss Prescott .