about six o'clock
`` If this man is guilty , '' said the attorney , `` he is nothing more nor less than a modern Macbeth . However , go on , and keep up your resolution ; effort will do much . I hope in this case -- in both cases -- it will do all . '' After some further conversation upon the matter in question , which it is not our intention to detail here , the stranger made an excursion to the country , and returned about six o'clock to his hotel . Here he found Dandy Dulcimer before him , evidently brimful of some important information on which he -LRB- Dandy -RRB- seemed to place a high value , and which gave to his naturally droll countenance such an expression of mock gravity as was ludicrous in the extreme . `` What is the matter , sir ? '' asked his master ; `` you look very big and important just now .