three o'clock
And you need n't worry about Sayers . I 'll tell him how the matter stands . You can put in your time for a week or two scouting around car agencies here in New York , and in the meantime , can consider yourself employed . Meet me here to-morrow at three o'clock . '' Jimmy experienced several paradoxes in his surroundings when he stepped briskly out of the skyscraper wherein he had been entertained . It was nearly five o'clock in a dark afternoon , but the universe seemed filled with sunshine ; heavy flakes were falling softly , but they appeared rose petals ; men and women wore overcoats but the air was benignantly soft and warm ; each sputtering arc light had a rainbow or a beautiful halo ; street cars clanged , taxis honk-honked , the wheels of trucks screeched and ground across paving blocks and metal rails ; but the whole blended into a strange triumphal march as if performed by some immense band of music . Mr. James Gollop had to fight an impulse to sing , dance , shout and altogether conduct himself with the improprieties that are chronicled against one King David , who played on timbrels and recklessly jazzed himself out of his job .