four in the afternoon
`` I do n't think I have ever met any one . Sometimes I have stood in the shadow up there and looked down Dupont Street . What a sight ! Respectable Montgomery Street is never so crowded at four in the afternoon . And the women ! Sometimes I have envied them , for life has never meant anything to them but just that . I never saw one of those painted harlots who looked as if she had even the remnants of a mind . ''