five o'clock
At five George left his office , turned off the business-current with a click and turned on , full-voltage , the domestic-affectionate . Genevieve often told her girl friends that she only began really to live after five , when George was restored to her . She assured them the psychical connection between George and herself was so close that , sitting alone in her drawing-room , she could feel a tingling thrill all over when the clock struck five and George emerged from his office downtown . On the afternoon in question she received her five o'clock electric thrill promptly on time , although history does not record whether or not George walked out from his office at that moment . With all due respect for the world-shaking importance of Mr. Remington 's movements , it must be stated that history had , on that afternoon , other more important events to chronicle . As the clock struck five , the front doorbell rang . Marie , the maid , went to open the door .