a quarter to seven
There were then nine other people in the waiting-room . At four I began a second leading article , which was finished at half-past five . At a quarter to six the manuscript of both effusions was sent in to the editor . At a quarter to seven inquiry elicited the information that the editor had left the building almost an hour since , with Sir William Bartram , after a crowded afternoon which had brought disappointment to many beside myself who had wished to see him . Unused as I was now to salary earning I felt uneasy . It seemed to me rather dreadful that any institution should be mulcted to the extent of a guinea in the day , by way of payment to a man who spent that day in a waiting-room . I looked anxiously for my leading articles next morning .