five o'clock
`` That would be my way to get there -- if I can get there at all , '' I said to myself . But there was hardly any `` if '' left in my mind now . I meant to get there . By this time it was after five o'clock . I left the Duval restaurant , and again took a cab . The first thing I did was to send a _ petit bleu _ to Aunt Lilian , saying that she was n't to worry about me . I 'd been hipped and nervous , and had gone out to see a friend who was -- I 'd just found out -- staying in Paris .