five o'clock
`` From one till two I shall have my turn , '' Mea cried out . She was counting on asking her mother so many questions that they might easily take three hours . She had no communications to make but she was terribly eager to hear all about Leonore . `` I 'll get the time between four and five o'clock , '' said Kurt . This term suited him exactly , as he had a secret hope of prolonging it somewhat . The two little ones were to have the remaining time before supper , and Kurt thought that they could not have very much to tell , whereas he was in need of a great deal of advice . The mother had been quite certain that Bruno in his interview with her would make a last , desperate effort to escape having to live with the Knippel boys .