five o'clock
So step lively if you want to pay your lovely mother 's subway fare . '' Ten minutes later the slim young figure , in its English-fitting black and white , sat opposite Emma McChesney at the breakfast table and between excited gulps of coffee outlined a meteoric career in his chosen field . And the more he talked and the rosier his figures of speech became , the more silent and thoughtful fell his mother . She wondered if five o'clock would find a droop to the set of those young shoulders ; if the springy young legs in their absurdly scant modish trousers would have lost some of their elasticity ; if the buoyant step in the flat-heeled shoes would not drag a little . Thirteen years of business experience had taught her to swallow smilingly the bitter pill of rebuff . But this boy was to experience his first dose to-day . She felt again that sensation of almost physical nausea -- that sickness of heart and spirit which had come over her when she had met her first sneer and intolerant shrug .