five
o'clock in the morning
By-and-by his mood changed , and he hung round a lamp-post and fell to moaning and lamenting his hard fate and hers . A policeman came up , took him for a maudlin drunkard , and half-advised , half-admonished , him to go home . At that he gave a sort of fierce , despairing snarl and ran into the next street to be alone . In this street he found a shop open and lighted , though it was but five o'clock in the morning . It was a barber 's whose customers were working people . HAIRCUTTING , SIXPENCE . EASY SHAVING , THREEPENCE .