four o'clock
Charley again repeated his offensive mandate ; but he did it in a spirit of bravado , in order to maintain his reputation . The allusion to the purse made him sadder than ever . He put his hand into his breast-pocket , and felt that it was near his heart : and then he fancied that he again heard her words -- ` You will be steady ; wo n't you , dear Charley ? ' At four o'clock , he was by no means in his usual hurry to go away , and he sat there drawing patterns on his blotting-paper , and chopping up a stick of sealing-wax with his penknife , in a very disconsolate way . Scatterall went . Corkscrew went . Mr. Snape , having carefully brushed his hat and taken down from its accustomed peg the old cotton umbrella , also took his departure ; and the fourth navvy , who inhabited the same room , went also .