three o’clock in the afternoon
My apprehensions were realized . When we stopped for supper I could n't muster courage to take any , though I should have liked it very much , but sat by the fire and said I did n't want anything . This did not save me from more jokes , either ; for a husky-voiced gentleman with a rough face , who had been eating out of a sandwich-box nearly all the way , except when he had been drinking out of a bottle , said I was like a boa-constrictor who took enough at one meal to last him a long time ; after which , he actually brought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef . We had started from Yarmouth at three o'clock in the afternoon , and we were due in London about eight next morning . It was Mid-summer weather , and the evening was very pleasant . When we passed through a village , I pictured to myself what the insides of the houses were like , and what the inhabitants were about ; and when boys came running after us , and got up behind and swung there for a little way , I wondered whether their fathers were alive , and whether they were happy at home . I had plenty to think of , therefore , besides my mind running continually on the kind of place I was going to -- which was an awful speculation .