about seven o’clock
He was much too preoccupied with an analysis of his own share of these encounters . He found it hard to be altogether satisfied about the figure he had cut , revise his memories as he would . Once more quite unintentionally he stumbled upon these two people . It was about seven o'clock . He stopped outside a linen draper 's and peered over the goods in the window at the assistants in torment . He could have spent a whole day happily at that . He told himself that he was trying to see how they dressed out the brass lines over their counters , in a purely professional spirit , but down at the very bottom of his heart he knew better .