about four o’clock
`` Yes , Sir Charles . '' `` Has he passed ? '' `` Yes , Sir Charles . It may have been about four o'clock , though with this crowd of folk and carriages it 's hard to swear to it . There was him , and Red Ike , and Fighting Yussef the Jew , and another , with a good bit of blood betwixt the shafts . They 'd been driving her hard , too , for she was all in a lather . '' `` That 's ugly , nephew , '' said my uncle , when we were flying onwards towards Reigate .