five o'clock
Evidently they had just put the lamp out and were going to sleep . It was reasonable enough at that hour , but he was irritated thereat , for now the darkened window ceased to interest him . He watched it for a quarter of an hour longer and then grew tired and , leaving the doorway , took a turn upon the pavement . Until five o'clock he walked to and fro , looking upward from time to time . The window seemed a dead thing , and now and then he asked himself if he had not dreamed that shadows had been dancing up there behind the panes . An intolerable sense of fatigue weighed him down , a dull , heavy feeling , under the influence of which he forgot what he was waiting for at that particular street corner . He kept stumbling on the pavement and starting into wakefulness with the icy shudder of a man who does not know where he is .