two o'clock
`` Yes , alone . '' `` It 's over nine miles . You ca n't walk it . '' Phineas looked at his watch , and found that it was now two o'clock . It was a broiling day in August , and the way back to Loughlinter , for six or seven out of the nine miles , would be along a high road . `` I must do it all the same , '' said he , preparing for a start . `` I have an engagement with Lady Laura Standish ; and as this is the last day that I shall see her , I certainly do not mean to break it . ''