two o'clock
All this was very wonderful , and so were the clustered boats riding at anchor in the harbor . It was like a new world , so different was it from the sand hills and the sedgy levels of Henlopen . Tom Chist took up his lodgings at a coffee house near to the town hall , and thence he sent by the postboy a letter written by Parson Jones to Master Chillingsworth . In a little while the boy returned with a message , asking Tom to come up to Mr. Chillingsworth 's house that afternoon at two o'clock . Tom went thither with a great deal of trepidation , and his heart fell away altogether when he found it a fine , grand brick house , three stories high , and with wrought-iron letters across the front . The counting house was in the same building ; but Tom , because of Mr. Jones 's letter , was conducted directly into the parlor , where the great rich man was awaiting his coming . He was sitting in a leather-covered armchair , smoking a pipe of tobacco , and with a bottle of fine old Madeira close to his elbow .