five o'clock
Get it if you can , and bring it up this evening . '' Crosbie , as he made his way back to his office , swore that he would not do the bidding of the countess . He would not trudge off into the city after her trinkets . But at five o'clock , when he left his office , he did go there . He apologized to himself by saying that he had nothing else to do , and bethought himself that at the present moment his lady mother-in-law 's smiles might be more convenient than her frowns . So he went to Lambert 's , on Ludgate Hill , and there learned that the bracelet had been sent down to Courcy Castle full two months since . After that he dined at his club , at Sebright 's .