five o'clock
`` I do n't think I ever saw a handsomer man . Now , if he had looked at me -- '' The sentence was never finished , for at this crucial moment I dropped a grammar ... . I had heard enough , however , to excite my curiosity to the highest pitch . And that evening , when I came in at five o'clock to study , I asked my mother what had become of Gene Hollister 's aunt . `` She went away , Hugh , '' replied my mother , looking greatly troubled . `` Why ? '' I persisted .