one o'clock on Saturday
Brook reached the city next evening , and , `` after hours , '' he staggered in through a side entrance to the lighted parlour of a private bar . They say that Lizzie broke her heart that year , but , then , the world does not believe in such things nowadays . One o'clock on Saturday . The unemployed 's one o'clock on Saturday ! Nothing more can be done this week , so you drag yourself wearily and despairingly `` home , '' with the cheerful prospect of a penniless Saturday afternoon and evening and the long horrible Australian-city Sunday to drag through . One of the landlady 's clutch -- and she _ is _ an old hen -- opens the door , exclaims : `` Oh , Mr Careless ! '' and grins .