half after five
The cab system is one of the most pleasing and amiable phases of metropolitan life . Warburton rushed into the noisy , gorgeous lobby , and wandered about till he espied the desk . Here he turned over his luggage checks to the clerk and said that these accessories of travel must be in his room before eight o'clock that night , or there would be trouble . It was now half after five . The clerk eagerly scanned the register . Warburton , Robert Warburton ; it was not a name with which _ he _ was familiar . A thin film of icy hauteur spread over his face .