six o'clock in the evening
Once she had been shamed because of him , on Bignor Hill where Stane Street runs to Chichester , and a second time in front of him in the tent at Chitipur . No , it was not an easy letter which he had to write , and he took the night and the greater part of the next day to decide upon its wording . It could not in any case go until the night-mail . He had finished it and directed it by six o'clock in the evening and he went down with the letter in his hand into the big lounge to post it in the box there . But it never was posted . Close to the foot of the staircase stood a tape machine , and as Thresk descended he heard the clicking of the instrument and saw the usual small group of visitors about it . They were mostly Americans , and they were reading out to one another the latest prices of the stock-markets .