four o'clock
He was particularly out of sorts because Miss Purry had mentioned that the De Luxe Apartments Company had been after the plot . It is small satisfaction to a loser to have his judgment corroborated . There was a Bronx project , involving the promotion of a huge exclusive subdivision , which he had hoped to launch ; but during his call on Miss Purry that scheme went adrift through the sudden disagreement of the uncertain Wobbles brothers who owned the land . It was a day of failures ; and at four o'clock he returned to the office and inscribed , upon the credit side of his unique little day-book , the laconic entry : `` April 28 . Two flivvers . $ 0 . '' Loring , pausing behind him and looking over his shoulder , smiled -- and added a climax .