five o'clock
The result of Fan 's second day 's search for employment proved no more promising than the first . She wandered about the Westbourne Park district , going as far west as Ladbroke Grove Road , still avoiding the streets , gardens , and squares of the larger houses . But she was apparently not good enough for even the humbler class of dwellings , for no one would so much as ask her what she could do , or condescend to speak to her , except in one house , to which she had been directed by a woman in a greengrocer 's shop ; there she was scoffingly asked if she had a `` character '' and decent clothes to wear . When the woman who had given her shelter on the previous evening returned at five o'clock from her work , she found Fan in Dudley Grove , for that was the beautiful name of the slum she lived in , standing , as before , beside the lamp-post ; and after a few words of greeting took her to her room . While preparing the tea she noticed the girl 's weak and starved condition , for Fan had eaten nothing all day , and went out and presently returned with a better supply of food -- brawn , and salt butter , and a bundle of water-cress -- quite a variety . As on the evening before , they sat for a while by the small fire after their meal , speaking a few words , and those not very hopeful ones , and then presently they went to bed , and to sleep as soon as their heads touched the pillow . After their modest breakfast next morning the woman said : `` Are you going back to your friends to-day ? ''