about five
o'clock
`` Do n't forget to rub into these little corners . Look here what you 've left . '' Jennie , mortified by this correction , fell earnestly to her task , and polished vigorously , without again daring to lift her eyes . With painstaking diligence they worked downward until about five o'clock ; it was dark outside , and all the lobby was brightly lighted . Now they were very near the bottom of the stairway . Through the big swinging doors there entered from the chilly world without a tall , distinguished , middle-aged gentleman , whose silk hat and loose military cape-coat marked him at once , among the crowd of general idlers , as some one of importance . His face was of a dark and solemn cast , but broad and sympathetic in its lines , and his bright eyes were heavily shaded with thick , bushy , black eyebrows .