nearly ten o'clock
She was so far `` gone on him '' that she could n't bear to see him taken up with Granville . She hated the very flowers as his hands caressed them . She hated the little tree he had planted at the bottom of the back garden . For the little tree had kept him out one night till nearly ten o'clock , after Violet had expressly told him that she was going to bed at nine . * * * * * Violet was not tired ; but she was tired of Granville . After six weeks of it she began to long secretly for Starker 's Millinery Saloons . In the saloon you walked looking beautiful through a flowery and a feathery grove of hats .