ten o'clock
He bit his nails , glowered at the flying landscape , and revolved many grievous fancies in his prickling bosom . Among other discontents was the knowledge that he did not have enough money with him to pay his fare back to New York , and he would either have to borrow from someone in Philadelphia or wire to his office for funds . He had not anticipated , when setting out upon this series of adventures , that it would prove so costly . The train drew into Broad Street station at ten o'clock , and Aubrey followed the bookseller through the bustling terminus and round the City Hall plaza . Mifflin seemed to know his way , but Philadelphia was comparatively strange to the Grey-Matter solicitor . He was quite surprised at the impressive vista of South Broad Street , and chagrined to find people jostling him on the crowded pavement as though they did not know he had just come from New York . Roger turned in at a huge office building on Broad Street and took an express elevator .