five o'clock
When the afternoon passed without the usual visit , he grew uneasy ; he was incapable of attending to matters of business , and walked up and down his office with impatient step . Such a mood was extraordinary in Mr. Woodstock ; he had often waxed restive in this or that business difficulty ; was , indeed , anything but remarkable for equanimity under trial ; but his state of mind was quite different at present , and exhibited itself in entirely different ways . He neither swore nor looked black ; his was the anxiety of a man who has some grave interest at stake wherein the better part of his nature is concerned . At five o'clock he took a cab , and went off to Waymark 's lodgings in Chelsea . Here he learned that Waymark had left home at the usual time , and had not yet returned . Just as he was speaking with the landlady at the door , another gentleman came up on the same errand . Mr. Woodstock remembered Julian Casti , and held out his hand to him .