five o’clock
I smoked a little , wondering whether Van Blarcom could catch the faint mutter of our voices . Then I gave my orders in the same muffled tones : `` You will tell the servants that you wish to sleep here to-night , to watch the car . You will stay here very quietly until it is nearly dawn . Then you will creep to mademoiselle 's door and whisper what I have told you and say that I beg her to meet me before those others have awakened at five o'clock in -- '' Pondering a rendezvous , I hesitated . The room where I had dined , with its stone floor , its beamed ceiling , and dark panels , came first to my mind . I fancied , though , that some outdoor spot might be safer . I remembered opportunely that a passage led past this room , and that at its end I had glimpsed a little garden behind the inn .