about five o’clock
When in Sulaco it was his practice to smoke and doze all day long -LRB- as though he had no care in the world -RRB- on a stone bench outside the doorway of the Casa Gould and facing the windows of the Avellanos house . Years and years ago his mother had been chief laundry-woman in that family -- very accomplished in the matter of clear-starching . He himself had been born on one of their haciendas . His name was Bonifacio , and Don Jose , crossing the street about five o'clock to call on Dona Emilia , always acknowledged his humble salute by some movement of hand or head . The porters of both houses conversed lazily with him in tones of grave intimacy . His evenings he devoted to gambling and to calls in a spirit of generous festivity upon the peyne d'oro girls in the more remote side-streets of the town . But he , too , was a discreet man .