five o’clock
Suppose he had not come back ? She got up restlessly , went to the window and looked out into the garden . Robin was not there , nor was he in the house . Obedient to an impulse which she had not understood at the time , Rosamund had arranged a small , and rather odd , festivity for him which had taken him away from home , and would keep him out till five o'clock : he was having tea in a cake-shop near the top of Wesley High Street with his nurse and Mr. Thrush , who , not unexpectedly , had arrived in Welsley . The first meeting between his father and mother would not be complicated by his eager young presence . So the garden was empty to-day . Not even the big young gardener was to be seen ; he only came on four days in the week , and this was not one of them .