about two o’clock
` Look at Leblanc , ' he said . ` He 's just a simple soul . There are hundreds and thousands like him . I admit , a certain dexterity , a certain lucidity , but there is not a country town in France where there is not a Leblanc or so to be found about two o'clock in its principal cafe . It 's just that he is n't complicated or Super-Mannish , or any of those things that has made all he has done possible . But in happier times , do n't you think , Wilhelm , he would have remained just what his father was , a successful epicier , very clean , very accurate , very honest . And on holidays he would have gone out with Madame Leblanc and her knitting in a punt with a jar of something gentle and have sat under a large reasonable green-lined umbrella and fished very neatly and successfully for gudgeon ... ' The president and the Japanese prince in spectacles protested together .