five o'clock
`` Think of my not waking ! '' Michael exclaimed . `` If only I had -- you would never have been allowed to go -- it is maddening to remember what that sleep cost -- but how did you manage at the hotel ? '' `` It was after five o'clock and the side door was open into the yard . Not a soul saw me , and I carried out my original plan . I think when I was in the train I had already begun to regret bitterly , but it was too late to go back -- and then next day your letter came to me at Mr. Parsons ' and all my pride was up in arms ! '' Here Michael held her very tight .