five o'clock
`` I 've told you , '' he said . `` I think I do . '' Three weeks later , one afternoon in October , Jane found herself going at a terrific pace through Kensington Gardens . Brodrick had sent word that he would see her at five o'clock , and it wanted but a few minutes of that hour . When Tanqueray sounded his warning , he did not measure the effect of the illumination that it wrought . The passion he divined in her had had a chance to sleep as long as it was kept in the dark . Now it was wide awake , and superbly aware of itself and of its hour .