six in the evening
`` Oh Bull ` ill ! Well , perhaps I 'll try . Could you tell me the way ? '' When , after an hour 's painful walk , Mr. May came to Bullwell Station and found there was no train till six in the evening , he felt he was earning every penny he would ever get from Mr. Houghton . The first intelligence which Miss Pinnegar and Alvina gathered of the coming adventure was given them when James announced that he had let the shop to Marsden , the grocer next door . Marsden had agreed to take over James 's premises at the same rent as that of the premises he already occupied , and moreover to do all alterations and put in all fixtures himself . This was a grand scoop for James : not a penny was it going to cost him , and the rent was clear profit .