five o'clock
I was too much absorbed by the ideas suggested by this letter , to pay attention to his remarks . I shuddered with the apprehension of the evil to which our indiscreet familiarity with this man had probably exposed us . I burnt with impatience to see you , and to do what in me lay to avert the calamity which threatened us . It was already five o'clock . Night was hastening , and there was no time to be lost . On leaving Mr. Hallet 's house , who should meet me in the street , but Bertrand , the servant whom I left in Germany . His appearance and accoutrements bespoke him to have just alighted from a toilsome and long journey .