three o'clock
You wo n't make a factory look like a house , though you decorate its front and plant rose-bushes all round it . The place depressed and yet cheered me . It somehow made the German people seem smaller . At three o'clock the lieutenant took us to a plain white building in a side street with sentries at the door . A young staff officer met us and made us wait for five minutes in an ante-room . Then we were ushered into a big room with a polished floor on which Peter nearly sat down . There was a log fire burning , and seated at a table was a little man in spectacles with his hair brushed back from his brow like a popular violinist .