four o'clock
He liked to wear clean cuffs ; Trina allowed him a fresh pair on Sundays only . At first these deprivations angered McTeague . Then , all of a sudden , he slipped back into the old habits -LRB- that had been his before he knew Trina -RRB- with an ease that was surprising . Sundays he dined at the car conductors ' coffee-joint once more , and spent the afternoon lying full length upon the bed , crop-full , stupid , warm , smoking his huge pipe , drinking his steam beer , and playing his six mournful tunes upon his concertina , dozing off to sleep towards four o'clock . The sale of their furniture had , after paying the rent and outstanding bills , netted about a hundred and thirty dollars . Trina believed that the auctioneer from the second-hand store had swindled and cheated them and had made a great outcry to no effect . But she had arranged the affair with the auctioneer herself , and offset her disappointment in the matter of the sale by deceiving her husband as to the real amount of the returns .