five o’clock
The course of my story must now lead me straight on to the later time , and to the terrible discovery which exposed my benefactor and my friend to all England as the forger Fauntleroy . I must ask you to suppose a lapse of some time after the occurrence of the events that I have just been relating . During this interval , thanks to the kind assistance I had received at the outset , my position as a man of business had greatly improved . Imagine me now , if you please , on the high road to prosperity , with good large offices and a respectable staff of clerks , and picture me to yourselves sitting alone in my private room between four and five o'clock on a certain Saturday afternoon . All my letters had been written , all the people who had appointments with me had been received . I was looking carelessly over the newspaper , and thinking about going home , when one of my clerks came in , and said that a stranger wished to see me immediately on very important business . `` Did he mention his name ? ''