five o'clock
Will told of his meeting with Miss Elvan . `` Yes , yes ; she 's off to London town -- wants to live there , like all the rest of the young people . In thirty years ' time she 'll have had enough of it , and be glad to creep into a quiet corner like this . My wife 's in the house , teaching our new maid to make tea-cakes -- you shall have some at five o'clock . I wonder whether any girl could be found nowadays who knows how to make tea-cakes ? There 's Rosamund -- she knows no more about that kind of thing than of ship-building . Do you know any young lady who could make a toothsome tea-cake ? ''