five
o'clock
Now the change had come in himself ; Agnes had commented on it , his mother and Sybil had noticed it ... . His bedroom was as he had known it from childhood ; a hard brass bed , white painted chest-of-drawers and wash-hand-stand , threadbare green carpet , flowered and festooned pink-and-white wall-paper . -LRB- It _ must _ have been renewed in twenty-five years , but the pattern was the same . -RRB- There was an oak-framed `` Light of the World '' over the bed , supplemented on the other walls with progressive personal records -- eleven podgy , flannelled little boys in quartered chocolate-and-gold caps , guarded and patronized by a flannelled and whiskered master ; four lean-faced , stern young school prefects in gowns and white ties ; two hundred shivering and draggled young men and girls , pressing together for warmth in the five o'clock chill of a June morning outside the Town Hall of Oxford . There were two shelves of calf-bound , marbled prize books between the windows , a pair of limp , battered racquets over the mantel-piece and a fumed-oak shield with the university and college arms contiguously inclined like the hearts of two lovers . Eric shed his coat and waist-coat on the bed , lighted a pipe and prowled ruminatively round the room . Somewhere in the shivering ball-group Jack Waring was to be found , marked out by the blue dress-coat of the Bullingdon .