about five o'clock in the afternoon
Richard had taken to avoiding her , she became aware of that . She fancied that she displeased him . If she had only known ! Silas Grangerson came to town on the Wednesday , driving in and reaching the Charleston Hotel about five o'clock in the afternoon . The Grangersons scarcely ever used the railway . Silas , often as he had been in Charleston , had never put foot in a street car ; even a hired conveyance was against the prejudices of these gentlemen . This antagonism towards public means of locomotion was not in the least the outcome of snobbishness or pride ; they had come from a race of people accustomed to move in a small orbit in their own particular way , an exclusive people , breeders and lovers of horses , a people to whom locomotion had always meant pride in the means and the method ; to take a seat in a stuffy railway car at so much a mile , to grab a ticket and squeeze into a tram car , to drive in a cab drawn by an indifferent horse would have been hateful to these people ; it was scarcely less so to their descendants .