five o’clock
Mr. Pappleworth came at twenty minutes to three . Then he sat and gossiped with Paul , treating the boy entirely as an equal , even in age . In the afternoon there was never very much to do , unless it were near the week-end , and the accounts had to be made up . At five o'clock all the men went down into the dungeon with the table on trestles , and there they had tea , eating bread-and-butter on the bare , dirty boards , talking with the same kind of ugly haste and slovenliness with which they ate their meal . And yet upstairs the atmosphere among them was always jolly and clear . The cellar and the trestles affected them . After tea , when all the gases were lighted , _ work _ went more briskly .