six o'clock
He put on his coat , from which he had flicked the faintest suspicion of dust , and again settled himself to go out and meet James on the question of an advance . He simply must have an advance . He did n't get it that day , none the less . The next morning he was ringing for his tea at six o'clock . And before ten he had already flitted to Lumley and back , he had already had a word with Mr. Bows , about that pitch , and , overcoming all his repugnance , a word with the quiet , frail , sad negro , about Alfreton fair , and the chance of buying some sort of collapsible building , for his cinematograph . With all this news he met James -- not at the shabby club , but in the deserted reading-room of the so-called Artizans Hall -- where never an artizan entered , but only men of James 's class . Here they took the chessboard and pretended to start a game .