five o'clock in the
afternoon
`` There is a young woman outside , colonel , '' he said , with a slight smile , `` who was crying so bitterly that I was really obliged to bring this fruit up to you . She said you would know who she was , and was heartbroken that she could not be allowed to come up to nurse you . She said that she had heard , from one of your men , of your wound . I told her that it was quite impossible that any civilian should enter the hospital , but said that I would take her fruit up and , if she would come every day at five o'clock in the afternoon , when we went off duty for an hour , I would tell her how you were going on . '' `` She used to sell fruit to the prisoners here , '' Terence said , `` and it was entirely by her aid that I effected my escape , last year ; and she got a muleteer , to whom she is engaged , to take me down from here to Cadiz . I bought her a present when we entered the town and , the other day , told her I hoped to dance at her wedding before long . However , that engagement will not come off .