Four o'clock
`` You will see me to-morrow ? '' pleaded Dorothy , as he came away . Whereat Richard averred doughtily that he should . Neither of the two having the practical wit to settle hour or place , Bess , who the moment before had returned to them from Mr. Fopling with intelligence coolly unimpaired , said : `` Four o'clock , then ; and , if I may make a suggestion , you might better meet here . '' It was among the miracles how the high beatitude consequent upon that wonderful event of Dorothy 's love put Richard in a vaguely belligerent mood . It was an amiable ferocity at that , and showed in nothing more dire than just an eye of overt challenge to all the world . Also , he dilated and swelled in sheer masculine pride of himself , and no longer walked the streets , but stalked .