six o'clock in the afternoon
Very rarely tells him anything more explicit . Mr. Tulkinghorn goes , as the crow came -- not quite so straight , but nearly -- to Cook 's Court , Cursitor Street . To Snagsby 's , Law-Stationer 's , Deeds engrossed and copied , Law-Writing executed in all its branches , & c. , & c. , & c . It is somewhere about five or six o'clock in the afternoon , and a balmy fragrance of warm tea hovers in Cook 's Court . It hovers about Snagsby 's door . The hours are early there : dinner at half-past one and supper at half-past nine . Mr. Snagsby was about to descend into the subterranean regions to take tea when he looked out of his door just now and saw the crow who was out late .