five o'clock in the afternoon
Since she answered `` No , '' the suspicion gathered strength . `` We went , however , near to it . We went as close to it as the quarries . It was five o'clock in the afternoon , and as we came to the corner of the wall which surrounds the quarries , my father said , ` They have stopped work now . ' '' `` He knew that ? '' asked Chayne . `` Yes .