six o'clock
`` I forgot to tell you , Mr. Audley , as how your uncle called here five minutes after you was gone , and left a message , asking of you and the other gentleman to go down to dinner at the Court . '' `` Then I should n't wonder , '' said Robert , `` if George Talboys has gone down to the Court to call upon my uncle . It is n't like him , but it 's just possible that he has done it . '' It was six o'clock when Robert knocked at the door of his uncle 's house . He did not ask to see any of the family , but inquired at once for his friend . Yes , the servant told him ; Mr. Talboys had been there at two o'clock or a little after . `` And not since ? ''