ten minutes to six
Meanwhile he read pages three and four of the _ Daily Telegraph _ . At a quarter to two he folded the paper , put down sixpence in payment , and slowly walked back to the office . He returned to his desk and there spent the afternoon solemnly poring over figures , casting accounts , comparing balance-sheets , writing letters , occasionally going for some purpose or another into the clerks ' office or into the room of one of the partners . At ten minutes to six he wiped his pens and put them back in the tray , tidied his desk and locked his drawer . He took off his paper cuffs , washed his hands , wiped his face , brushed his hair , arranging the long whisps over the occipital baldness , and combed his whiskers . At six he left the office , caught the six-seventeen train from Ludgate Hill , and thus made his way back to Camberwell and the bosom of his family . On Sunday , Mr Clinton put on Sunday clothes , and heading the little procession formed by Mrs Clinton and the two children , went to church , carrying in his hand a prayer book and a hymn book .