five o'clock
`` And it is not far away . A cable will reach father in two hours . '' Pursuing a certain vivid thought in her mind , she looked at her watch . `` If you spoke to mother by cable this moment , '' she added , with accustomed coolness , and she felt her sister actually start as she spoke , `` she could answer you by five o'clock . '' Lady Anstruther 's start ended in a laugh and gasp more hysteric than her first . There was even a kind of wan awakening in her face , as she lifted it to look at the wonderful newcomer . She caught her hand and held it , trembling , as she weakly laughed .