six o'clock
Surprised at this , he returned to the station , and went back to the same old bench . It was fully occupied , and he stood for some time looking with vague reproach at the large family of coloured people who had taken it . He had a feeling that he lived there and that these coloured people were trespassers ; but upon becoming aware that part of an orange was being rubbed over his left shoe by the youngest of the children , he groaned abruptly and found another bench . A little after six o'clock a clanging and commotion in the train-shed outside , attending the arrival of a `` through express , '' stirred him from his torpor , and he walked heavily across the room to the same ticket-window he had twice blocked ; but there was no queue attached to it now . He rested his elbow upon the apron and his chin upon his hand , while the clerk waited until he should state his wishes . This was a new clerk , who had just relieved the other . `` Well !