six o'clock
I should n't wonder much if you should find cards , when you get home , from the Mayor , requestin ' the honor of your company to dinner , along with other distinguished guests . '' Dick felt in very good spirits . He seemed to be emerging from the world in which he had hitherto lived , into a new atmosphere of respectability , and the change seemed very pleasant to him . At six o'clock Dick went into a restaurant on Chatham Street , and got a comfortable supper . He had been so successful during the day that , after paying for this , he still had ninety cents left . While he was despatching his supper , another boy came in , smaller and slighter than Dick , and sat down beside him . Dick recognized him as a boy who three months before had entered the ranks of the boot-blacks , but who , from a natural timidity , had not been able to earn much .