five o’clock
He once or twice observed to me that he thought Dorcas must have made an error in fixing the time of the quarrel . He suggested to her repeatedly that it was four-thirty , and not four o'clock when she had heard the voices . But Dorcas was unshaken . Quite an hour , or even more , had elapsed between the time when she had heard the voices and five o'clock , when she had taken tea to her mistress . The inquest was held on Friday at the Stylites Arms in the village . Poirot and I sat together , not being required to give evidence . The preliminaries were gone through .