about six o'clock
You can go on with the old ones . '' They entered . With the men the most common ailments were due to the excessive use of alcohol , but with the women they were due to defective nourishment . By about six o'clock they were finished . Philip , exhausted by standing all the time , by the bad air , and by the attention he had given , strolled over with his fellow-clerks to the Medical School to have tea . He found the work of absorbing interest . There was humanity there in the rough , the materials the artist worked on ; and Philip felt a curious thrill when it occurred to him that he was in the position of the artist and the patients were like clay in his hands .