five o'clock
`` With both hands , '' declared Arline . `` Now , we had better start , or we 'll never get back to Vinton 's . Ruth , you have my permission to walk with Anne as far as your corner . It 's five o'clock now . Shall we agree to meet at Vinton 's at half-past six ? That will give us an hour and a half to get the soot off our faces , and if the expressman should experience a change of heart and deliver our trunks we might possibly appear in fresh gowns . The possibility is very remote , however .