four o’clock
`` And , alas ! between distress and consolation there are fifteen perpendicular feet of stone and mortar and the relics of twelve hundred bottles of Bass , '' he replied . `` Perhaps , '' -- the voice hesitated -- `` perhaps we may see each other some day . '' `` Say to-morrow at four o'clock , '' he suggested , pertinently . `` If you could manage to be passing up the drive at that hour . '' There was another pause . `` Perhaps -- -- '' the voice began .