six o'clock
Evidently what information the police had obtained they were keeping for the inquest . Laverick , from the moment when he entered the office , had little or no time to think of the tragedy under whose shadow he had come . The long-predicted boom had arrived at last . Without lunch , he and all his clerks worked until after six o'clock . Even then Laverick found it hard to leave . During the day , a dozen people or so had been in to ask for Morrison . To all of them he had given the same reply , -- Morrison had gone abroad on private business for the firm .