about seven o'clock
Why they just shook hands as if they 'd never been anything but pleasant friends . All the same , as I tell you , Norbert has been a second time . '' `` I 'm glad to hear it , '' said Warburton . Will had purposed getting back to the shop about seven o'clock . He was , indeed , back in London at that hour , but his state of mind tempted him to shirk squalid duty ; instead of turning toward Fulham Road , he took his way into the Strand , and there loitered in the evening sunshine , self-reproachful , yet enjoying the unwonted liberty . It was dinner-time ; restaurants exhaled their pungent odours , and Will felt sharpening appetite . For the first time since his catastrophe , he granted himself the dinner of a well-to-do man , and , as would naturally befall in such a case , made his indulgence large .