five o'clock
`` Mr. Medlin is a very trustworthy person , '' Mr. Bale went on . `` He has been with me for upwards of twenty years , and I have the greatest confidence in him . `` You had better sit down here , and take a book . At five o'clock come down into the counting house . Mr. Medlin will leave at that hour . '' Bob had hitherto avoided the counting house . He had occasionally , on previous visits , slipped down to his friend the foreman ; and had wandered through the great cellars , and watched the men at work bottling , and gazed in surprise at the long tiers of casks stacked up to the roof of the cellar , and the countless bottles stowed away in the bins .