five o'clock
`` If he does , we 'll have to give it to him . Offer him ten dollars a week more . But remember , Mac , only as a last resort ! '' So when Skinner stepped in at five o'clock , McLaughlin made the bluff . Skinner did n't call it . Instead , he bowed submissively , almost with relief , and without a word left for home . Everything contributed to the drab occasion for Skinner .