about four o'clock in the
afternoon
But he do n't drink any more , Mamma says , only -- there 's five children younger 'n we are , you know -- '' `` Sure , '' said Julia , heavy oppressed . But Marguerite was cheered at this point by encountering two pimply and embarrassed youths , and Julia , climbing a moment later into a Mission Street car , looked back to see her cousin walking off between the two masculine forms , and heard their loud laughter ring upon the night . About ten days later , unannounced , Emeline came home , and with her came a stout , red-faced , grayhaired man , in whom Julia was aghast to find her father . They reached Mrs. Tarbury 's at about four o'clock in the afternoon , and Julia , coming in from a call on a theatrical manager , found them in the dining-room . George had been very ill , and moved ponderously and slowly . He looked far older than Julia 's memory of him . There were sagging red pockets under his eyes , and his heavy jowls were darkened with a day 's growth of gray stubble .