About five o'clock
That afternoon he took the train to London . It was not until a day late in January eight years afterwards that Thresk saw the face of Stella Derrick again ; and then it was only in a portrait . He came upon it too in a most unlikely place . About five o'clock upon that afternoon he drove out of the town of Bombay up to one of the great houses on Malabar Hill and asked for Mrs. Carruthers . He was shown into a drawing-room which looked over Back Bay to the great buildings of the city , and in a moment Mrs. Carruthers came to him with her hands outstretched . `` So you 've won . My husband telephoned to me .