two o'clock
` I have permission from Mr. Oldeschole to attend upon her for the rest of the day -- perhaps you would like to ask him . ' And so saying he went off to his appointment with Mr. M'Ruen at the ` Banks of Jordan . ' The ` Banks of Jordan ' was a public-house in the city , which from its appearance did not seem to do a very thriving trade ; but as it was carried on from year to year in the same dull , monotonous , dead-alive sort of fashion , it must be surmised that some one found an interest in keeping it open . Charley , when he entered the door punctually at two o'clock , saw that it was as usual nearly deserted . One long , lanky , middle-aged man , seedy as to his outward vestments , and melancholy in countenance , sat at one of the tables . But he was doing very little good for the establishment : he had no refreshment of any kind before him , and was intent only on a dingy pocket-book in which he was making entries with a pencil . You enter the ` Banks of Jordan ' by two folding doors in a corner of a very narrow alley behind the Exchange .