about five o'clock
THE FOUR FEATHERS -LSB- 1 -RSB- story by the author , originally printed in the _ Illustrated London News _ , and since republished . -RSB- Lieutenant Sutch was the first of General Feversham 's guests to reach Broad Place . He arrived about five o'clock on an afternoon of sunshine in mid June , and the old red-brick house , lodged on a southern slope of the Surrey hills , was glowing from a dark forest depth of pines with the warmth of a rare jewel . Lieutenant Sutch limped across the hall , where the portraits of the Fevershams rose one above the other to the ceiling , and went out on to the stone-flagged terrace at the back . There he found his host sitting erect like a boy , and gazing southward toward the Sussex Downs . `` How 's the leg ? ''