half past five o'clock
He took out his check-book and paid for the whole thing , arranging that the girl should not know how much it all really cost , and that a small sum might be paid by her as she was able , to be forwarded by the firm to him ; this to make her feel entirely comfortable about it all . As he went out into the street again a great sense of weariness came over him . He had lived -- how many years had he lived ! -- in experience since he left the university at half past five o'clock ? How little his past life looked to him as he surveyed it from the height he had just climbed . Life ! Life was not all basket-ball , and football , and dances , and fellowships , and frats .