five o’clock
In the matter of the arrangement of the furniture she never took the housemaid 's opinion . That young woman invariably put one of the rocking-chairs in the corner , and Carrie as regularly moved it out . To-day she hardly noticed that it was in the wrong place , so absorbed was she in her own thoughts . She worked about the room until Drouet put in appearance at five o'clock . The drummer was flushed and excited and full of determination to know all about her relations with Hurstwood . Nevertheless , after going over the subject in his mind the livelong day , he was rather weary of it and wished it over with . He did not foresee serious consequences of any sort , and yet he rather hesitated to begin .