about three o'clock
Yet the attempt must be made . So he set himself to his task . His opportunity came on the afternoon of the day following that of the opening of the `` Home . '' Watching from the corner of his window , as he was wont , about three o'clock , Tommy saw `` the Golden Shoemaker '' come along the street , and enter his old house . Then the little man turned away from the window , and became very nervous . For quite two minutes he stood back against the shelves , trying to compose himself . When he had succeeded , in some degree , in steadying his quivering nerves , he reached from under the counter a brown-paper parcel containing a pair of boots , which had , for some days , been lying in readiness for the occasion which had now arrived , and , calling John to mind the shop , slipped swiftly into the street .