five o'clock
`` I should be proud of you . Of course you are a little rough colt ; but you could be trained ; '' and then she looked with sudden admiration at her handsome daughter . `` She has a face in a thousand , '' she thought , `` and she is absolutely unconscious of her beauty . '' At five o'clock Nora had started off in the pony-trap to visit her friend Biddy . The trap had been brought back by one of the numerous gossoons who abounded all over O'Shanaghgan , and Biddy and Nora had a few hours before the great secret expedition was to take place . And now the time had come . The girls had put on thick serge petticoats , short jackets , and little tight-fitting caps on their heads .