six o'clock
`` I 've lived here over twenty year an ' I hai n't seen noth 'n' yet . But the walkin ' is as good as it is anywhere . '' `` Thank you . I shall return at six o'clock -- for the omelet , '' and he walked away with short , mincing steps that seemed to them all very comical . Three heads at once bent over the register , on which the stranger had I written in clear , delicate characters : `` Lysander Antonius Sinclair , B. N. , Boston , Mass. '' `` I wonder what the ` B. N. ' stands for , '' said Mary Ann Hopper , curiously . `` Bum Nerves , o ' course , '' replied the landlord . `` He 's got 'em , sure enough . ''