six o'clock
`` To the Municipal Building . '' `` Suppose you come and lunch with me first at the Occidental , '' and the smile which accompanied the invitation was very persuasive . `` It 's near where you are going . '' Mitchell had not lunched , and a hurried breakfast had been consumed before six o'clock . It was his hunger which had occasioned his haste to reach the Municipal Building and later a near-by café . His official business was not very pressing , and since meeting Miller at the Whitneys ' two days before , he had heard of his attentions to Kathleen Whitney . The rumor had interested him as much as Miller 's personality .