five o'clock
For a moment she stood there , her dainty figure silhouetted against the bright doorway , with the light shining through her soft hair giving her an undeserved halo . Then she was gone , leaving him on the steps in the moonlight , tenderly contemplating the hand that had just held hers . It was well that Quin had an errand to perform that night . His emotions , which had been accumulating compound interest since five o'clock , demanded an outlet in immediate action . He had not the faintest idea where the Aristo Apartments might be ; but , wherever they were , he meant to find them . Consultation with a telephone book at the corner drug-store sent him across the city to a newer and more fashionable residence quarter . As he left the street-car at the corner indicated , he asked a man who was just dismounting from a taxi-cab for further information .