five o'clock
The graver business which brought them together the Onslows and their affairs being discussed , they gave way to all the seductions of their exalted fancies . Jekyl , taking up his guitar , warbled out a French love song , in a little treble a bullfinch might have envied ; Nina , with the aid of the padre 's beads for castanets , stepped the measure of a bolero ; while the old priest himself broke out into a long chant , in which Ovid , Petrarch , Anacreon , and his breviary alternately figured , and under the influence of which he fell fast asleep at last , totally unconscious of the corked moustaches and eyebrows with which Nina ornamented his reverend countenance . The sound of wheels in the silent street at last admonished them of the hour , and opening the window , Jekyl saw a brougham belonging to Sir Stafford just drawing up at the door . `` Francois is punctual , '' said Nina , looking at her watch ; `` I told him five o'clock . '' `` Had we not better set him down first ? '' said Jekyl , with a gesture toward the priest ; `` he does not live far away . '' `` With all my heart , '' replied she ; `` but you 're not going to wash his face ? ''