five o'clock
`` I have the little car here in the street . It was Mrs. Blount 's proposal ; she said you would change your mind if I came after you and offered to drive you . Come ! I 'll promise to bring you back before five o'clock . I know the time is awfully short , but I can do it ! '' If Blount hesitated it was only because her beauty and her eagerness thrilled him until , for the moment , he could think of nothing else . Then he closed his desk quickly and struggled into his overcoat , saying : `` It shall be as you wish .