four o'clock
The portrait is to hang up in the directors ' room of one of the big copper companies . The young gentleman is a member of the banking firm that is to pay for the picture , and is quite a young man . He buys little curios of me now and then , and he asked me whom I would recommend to paint the director 's portrait , and , of course , there is but one painter -- '' and the dealer bowed to the floor . `` He 's coming to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock and will stay but a moment , for he 's a very busy man . You will , I know , receive him . '' Gregg made no reply . Rich directors did not appeal to him ; they were generally flabby and well fed and out of drawing .