about
three o'clock in the afternoon
His sloping shoulders looked as if the Heavens had fallen -- on them . Isaacson refused to get into the omnibus at the station in Cairo , and drove to Shepheard 's Hotel in a victoria , drawn by a pair of lean grey horses with long manes and tails . The coachman was an Arab much pitted with smallpox , who wore the tarbush with European clothes . It was about three o'clock in the afternoon , and the streets of the enticing and confusing city were crowded . Isaacson sat up very straight and looked about him with eager eyes . He felt keenly excited . This was his very first taste of Eastern life .