six o'clock
He had grown , in a manner , accustomed to Ina being away . There is something about marriage and the absence it causes that brings one into the state of acquiescence concerning death . But he longed for the others , and he thought of his poor little Charlotte at home all day , and her loneliness . He looked at his watch , and realized that he must hurry if he caught the train which would take him to Banbridge at six o'clock . He had one more place on his list , and that was far up-town . He crossed to the Elevated station and boarded the first up-town train . What he was about to do was , in a way , so monstrous , taking into consideration his antecedents , his bringing-up , and all his forebears , that it had to his mind the grotesqueness of a gargoyle on his house of life .