Five o'clock in the afternoon
He was quite unconscious of having done a good action . Such actions are supposed to bring their own reward , but experience suggests that it is best not to count upon anything of a tangible nature . Like lutes of angels , touched so near Hell 's confines , that the damned can hear . Time : Five o'clock in the afternoon . Five o'clock , that is to say , by the railway time . There is another time in Barcelona -- the town time , to wit -- which differs from the hour of the iron road by thirty minutes or thereabouts . But then the town time is Spanish , that is to say that no one takes any notice of it .