five o'clock
Friendship is a good thing , and so is hospitality , which is an essentially English thing , and consequently one that it behoves an Englishman to think it his duty to perform , but we do not extend it to paupers . But should a pauper get so close to us as to lay hold of us , vowing he was once our friend , how shake him loose ? Tinman foresaw that it might be a matter of five pounds thrown to the dogs , perhaps ten , counting the glass . He put on his hat , full of melancholy presentiments ; and it was exactly half-past five o'clock of the spring afternoon when he knocked at Crickledon 's door . Had he looked into Crickledon 's shop as he went by , he would have perceived Van Diemen Smith astride a piece of timber , smoking a pipe . Van Diemen saw Tinman . His eyes cocked and watered .