five o'clock
How to compromise the matter for the sake of peace ? The man perpetually plunged into strife by his combative spouse , cried the familiar question again ; and at every suggestion of his on behalf of concord he heard from Lady Charlotte that he had no principles , or else from Lord Ormont that his head must be off his shoulders . The man for peace had the smallest supply of language , and so , unless he took a side and fought , his active part was football between them . It went on through the afternoon up to five o'clock . No impression was betrayed by Lady Charlotte . She congratulated her brother on the recruit he had enlisted . He smiled his grimmest of the lips drawn in .