about five in the afternoon
On the Tuesday again he did not go to the club . He felt severely the loss of the excitement to which he had been accustomed , but the thing was too important to him to be slurred over . He did not dare to sit down and play with the man who had cheated him without saying anything about it . On the Wednesday afternoon life was becoming unbearable to him and he sauntered into the building at about five in the afternoon . There , as a matter of course , he found Dolly Longestaffe drinking sherry and bitters . `` Where the blessed angels have you been ? '' said Dolly .