five o'clock
You have the honor of your name somewhat sensitively at heart . But if you had not married her -- If there were no compulsion , no outside reason -- tell me , would you marry her now ? '' But that I left unanswered . Pierre came at five o'clock . He was keen for the approaching supper hour and came jovially . I was sick with haste , and deep sunk in my own grief , so I was cruel and a fool ; I plumped the facts at him without a softening word . And so I frustrated my own ends .