five o'clock
`` Ha , ha ! '' exclaimed the driver , with glee , `` is that it ? Come , then -- here 's at you -- they 're off . '' It was not yet five o'clock , and the stranger requested to be shown to a bedroom , to which he immediately retired , in order to gain a few hours ' sleep , after the fatigue of his journey and the agitation which he had Undergone . In the meantime , as Dandy followed Miss Gourlay , so shall we follow him . The chase , we must admit , was conducted with singular judgment and discretion , the second chaise jogging on -- but that , in fact , is not the term -- we should rather say flogging on , inasmuch as that which contained the fair fugitives went at a rate of most unusual speed . In this manner they proceeded , until they reached a very pretty cottage , about three quarters of a mile from the town of Wicklow , situated some fifty or sixty yards in from the road side .