about ten
o'clock on the fifth of May
Still no Dame Cunegonda made her appearance . Agnes kept the secret , and I kept the Duenna : The Baroness , therefore , remained in total ignorance respecting the old Woman 's fate , but suspected her to have perished by suicide . Thus past away five days , during which I had prepared every thing necessary for my enterprise . On quitting Agnes , I had made it my first business to dispatch a Peasant with a letter to Lucas at Munich , ordering him to take care that a Coach and four should arrive about ten o'clock on the fifth of May at the Village of Rosenwald . He obeyed my instructions punctually : The Equipage arrived at the time appointed . As the period of her Lady 's elopement drew nearer , Cunegonda 's rage increased . I verily believe that spight and passion would have killed her , had I not luckily discovered her prepossession in favour of Cherry Brandy .