five o'clock
This was , in fact , his last meal alone with Mike . He had never bothered about the matter because Meg was such a good sort and so jolly well able to amuse and look after herself . The days had just passed , and now she was coming , Meg , who was his best friend in the whole world , Meg who in his eyes had the mind of a boy and the sympathy of a woman . At five o'clock Michael Amory , true to his word , was down at the ferry , awaiting the arrival of Margaret Lampton . The ferry-boat was pulling across the Nile ; he would soon be able to distinguish her . In all probability no other Englishwoman would be crossing to the western bank of the river at so late an hour . Tourists who came to visit the Colossi of Memnon , whose song to the dawn never dies , or to `` do '' the ruins of the Hundred-Gated city of Thebes , came much earlier in the day .