five o'clock
Listen to what Foxy Issy has to say for himself . '' `` Well , sir , commissioner , '' began the accused , `` this here thing happens last Thursday , just as Captain Meagher is telling you . '' He had slipped already into the policeman 's trick of detailing a past event in the present tense . `` It 's late in the afternoon -- round five o'clock I guess -- and I 'm downstairs in the Detective Bureau alone . '' `` Alone , you say ? '' broke in Donohue , emphasizing the word as though the admission scored a point against the man on trial . `` Yes , sir , I 'm alone .