four o'clock
`` To tell the truth , Bob , I would rather do neither . It 's a glorious morning . Suppose we stroll about all day , take another turn with the rod and line , and go up to town by the train that leaves here at 6.15 in the evening ? '' Robert Audley would have assented to a far more disagreeable proposition than this , rather than have taken the trouble to oppose his friend , so the matter was immediately agreed upon ; and after they had finished their breakfast , and ordered a four o'clock dinner , George Talboys took the fishing-rod across his broad shoulders , and strode out of the house with his friend and companion . But if the equable temperament of Mr. Robert Audley had been undisturbed by the crackling peals of thunder that shook the very foundations of the Sun Inn , it had not been so with the more delicate sensibilties of his uncle 's young wife . Lady Audley confessed herself terribly frightened of the lightning . She had her bedstead wheeled into a corner of the room , and with the heavy curtains drawn tightly round her , she lay with her face buried in the pillow , shuddering convulsively at every sound of the tempest without .