nearly six o'clock
It was the same face , only older and less boyish-looking . The fair moustache was fully grown ; the face was altogether more manly and full of character . It must be he ; I must go and speak to him ; but as I rose , my limbs trembling with excitement , he moved away , and his whistle seemed to die in the distance . It was nearly six o'clock , and there was no time to be lost . I ran upstairs and put on my bonnet and mantle . I thought that Clayton looked at me in some surprise , -- I was leaving the house without gloves ; but I did not wait for any explanation : the men would be leaving off work . The door was open , and I quickly found my way to the drawing-room , but , to my chagrin , it was empty , and an elderly man with gray hair came out of a back room with a basket of carpenter 's tools and looked at me inquiringly .