five o'clock
Come quickly . I want to be in the house and up in my own room before any one discovers that I spent the night out . '' There seemed reason in this to Irene , and she suffered her friend to walk with her along the road . It was a glorious summer morning ; but at so early an hour -- not yet five o'clock -- the air was cool . Exercise , however , soon revived Rosamund , and she lost that feeling of chill and fatigue which had made the latter part of the night so unpleasant to her . As to Irene , she was as fresh as a young bird , and the pranks she played , and the somersaults she turned , and the extraordinary manner in which she went on would have terrified many girls , although Rosamund scarcely noticed them . She had already discovered that Irene 's bark was worse than her bite , and the best plan was to let her alone and not to take too much notice of her vagaries .