five o'clock
It must be awful , Rupert . '' `` It must be awful , '' Rupert agreed . `` I do not know what I should have done had it been me , and you know it might just as well have been me as Edgar . I wish it were five o'clock ! '' The afternoon seemed indeed endless to them all . For the last half-hour Rupert and Madge sat at the window gazing across the park for the first sight of the horseman , and at last they exclaimed simultaneously , `` There he comes ! '' Captain Clinton , who had been sitting by the sofa holding his wife 's hand in his , rose .