about six
o'clock
The case of Mr. Millborne and Mrs. Frankland particularly illustrated this , and perhaps something more . There were few figures better known to the local crossing-sweeper than Mr. Millborne 's , in his daily comings and goings along a familiar and quiet London street , where he lived inside the door marked eleven , though not as householder . In age he was fifty at least , and his habits were as regular as those of a person can be who has no occupation but the study of how to keep himself employed . He turned almost always to the right on getting to the end of his street , then he went onward down Bond Street to his club , whence he returned by precisely the same course about six o'clock , on foot ; or , if he went to dine , later on in a cab . He was known to be a man of some means , though apparently not wealthy . Being a bachelor he seemed to prefer his present mode of living as a lodger in Mrs. Towney 's best rooms , with the use of furniture which he had bought ten times over in rent during his tenancy , to having a house of his own . None among his acquaintance tried to know him well , for his manner and moods did not excite curiosity or deep friendship .