one o'clock
You receive sixteen shillings a week to be ` ere at ` alf-past nine , and if you do n't feel yourself capable of performing the duties for which you was engaged , you should give notice ... . Do n't let it occur again . ' But usually , on arriving , Mr Clinton took off his tail-coat and put on a jacket , manufactured from the office paper a pair of false cuffs to keep his own clean , and having examined the nibs in both his penholders and sharpened his pencil , set to work . From then till one o'clock he remained at his desk , solemnly poring over figures , casting accounts , comparing balance-sheets , writing letters , occasionally going for some purpose or another into the clerks ' office or into the room of one of the partners . At one he went to luncheon , taking with him the portion of his _ Daily Telegraph _ which he was in the habit of reading during that meal . He went to an A. B. C. shop and ordered a roll and butter , a cup of chocolate and a scone . He divided his pat of butter into two , one half being for the roll and the other for the scone ; he drank one moiety of the cup of chocolate after eating the roll , and the other after eating the scone .