a quarter to six
At one , I rushed out to a dirty little eating-house in Hampstead Road . Was back again by a quarter to two , having in the meantime sketched a paper for The West End . Pipe in mouth , I sat down to leisurely artistic work ; by five , half the paper was done ; the other half remains for to-morrow . From five to half-past I read four newspapers and two magazines , and from half-past to a quarter to six I jotted down several ideas that had come to me whilst reading . At six I was again in the dirty eating-house , satisfying a ferocious hunger . Home once more at 6.45 , and for two hours wrote steadily at a long affair I have in hand for The Current . Then I came here , thinking hard all the way .