about five in the
afternoon
Not at all . The Hosea C. Brewsters , of Winnebago , Wisconsin , were the people you 've met on the veranda of the Moana Hotel at Honolulu , or at the top of Pike 's Peak , or peering into the restless heart of Vesuvius . They were the prosperous Middle-Western type of citizen who runs down to Chicago to see the new plays and buy a hat , and to order a dozen Wedgwood salad plates at Field 's . Mrs. Brewster knew about Dunsany and georgette and alligator pears ; and Hosea Brewster was in the habit of dropping around to the Elks ' Club , up above Schirmer 's furniture store on Elm Street , at about five in the afternoon on his way home from the cold-storage plant . The Brewster place was honeycombed with sleeping porches and sun parlours and linen closets , and laundry chutes and vegetable bins and electric surprises , as your well-to-do Middle-Western house is likely to be . That house had long ago grown too large for the two of them -- physically , that is . But as the big frame house had expanded , so had they -- in tolerance and understanding and humanness -- until now , as you talked with them , you felt that here was room and to spare of sun-filled mental chambers , and shelves well stored with experience ; and pantries and bins and closets for all your worries and confidences .