six o'clock in the evening
He was waiting now for the trams , and building up hopes since he could not build in bricks and mortar . The navvies were busy in troops along the Knarborough Road , and down Lumley Hill . Alvina became quite used to them . As she went down the hill soon after six o'clock in the evening , she met them trooping home . And some of them she liked . There was an outlawed look about them as they swung along the pavement -- some of them ; and there was a certain lurking set of the head which rather frightened her because it fascinated her . There was one tall young fellow with a red face and fair hair , who looked as if he had fronted the seas and the arctic sun .