seven o'clock
No doubt he is right . Every dog his day . Nearly opposite to the church stands a tall narrow house of dirty red brick , and it is with this house that we have to do . At seven o'clock , one evening some years ago -- when heads now grey were brown , when eyes now dim were bright -- the Strand was in its usual state of turmoil . Carriage followed carriage . Seedy clerks hustled past portly merchants -- not their own masters , _ bien entendu _ , but those of other seedy clerks . Carriages and foot-passengers were alike going westward .