five o’clock
She said , `` I will do what I can , Drusilla , to please you , '' with a look of surprise , which was at once instructive and terrible to see . Not a moment was to be lost . The clock on the mantel-piece informed me that I had just time to hurry home ; to provide myself with a first series of selected readings -LRB- say a dozen only -RRB- ; and to return in time to meet the lawyer , and witness Lady Verinder 's Will . Promising faithfully to be back by five o'clock , I left the house on my errand of mercy . When no interests but my own are involved , I am humbly content to get from place to place by the omnibus . Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt 's interests by recording that , on this occasion , I committed the prodigality of taking a cab . I drove home , selected and marked my first series of readings , and drove back to Montagu Square , with a dozen works in a carpet-bag , the like of which , I firmly believe , are not to be found in the literature of any other country in Europe .