five o'clock in the afternoon
I have read so much about Jack Sheppard that I could fairly see him jumping out of the window he always dropped from when the police came . After that we saw the house where Mr. Tulkinghorn , Lady Dedlock 's lawyer , used to live , and also the house where old Krook was burned up by spontaneous combustion . Then we went to Bolt Court , where old Samuel Johnson lived , walked about , and talked , and then to another court where he lived when he wrote the dictionary , and after that to the `` Cheshire Cheese '' Inn , where he and Oliver Goldsmith often used to take their meals together . Then we saw St. John 's Gate , where the Knights Templars met , and the yard of the Court of Chancery , where little Miss Flite used to wait for the Day of Judgment ; and as we was coming home he showed us the church of St. Martin 's - in-the-Fields , where every other Friday the bells are rung at five o'clock in the afternoon , most people not knowing what it is for , but really because the famous Nell Gwynn , who was far from being a churchwoman , left a sum of money for having a merry peal of bells rung every Friday until the end of the world . I got so wound up by all this , that I quite forgot Jone , and hardly thought of Mr. Poplington , except that he was telling me all these things , and bringing back to my mind so much that I had read about , though sometimes very little . When we got back to the hotel and had gone up to our room , Jone said to me : `` That was all very fine and interesting from top to toe , but it does seem to me as if things were dreadfully mixed . Dr. Johnson and Jack Sheppard , I suppose , was all real and could live in houses ; but when it comes to David Copperfields and Lady Dedlocks and little Miss Flites , that was n't real and never lived at all , they was all talked about in just the same way , and their favorite tramping grounds pointed out , and I ca n't separate the real people from the fancy folk , if we 've got to have the same bosom heaving for the whole of them . ''