six o'clock in the evening
Perfumed clouds of shag , hovering for a time over the lighter , floated lazily towards the Surrey shore . `` There 's one thing about my job , '' said the night-watchman , slowly , `` it 's done all alone by yourself . There 's no foreman a-hollering at you and offering you a penny for your thoughts , and no mates to run into you from behind with a loaded truck and then ask you why you did n't look where you 're going to . From six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock next morning I 'm my own master . '' He rammed down the tobacco with an experienced forefinger and puffed contentedly . People like you ` ud find it lonely -LRB- he continued , after a pause -RRB- ; I did at fust . I used to let people come and sit ` ere with me of an evening talking , but I got tired of it arter a time , and when one chap fell overboard while ' e was showing me ` ow he put his wife 's mother in ` er place , I gave it up altogether .