about five in the afternoon
And her eyes flashed so that Eugenie was frightened . `` How I wish they would ! '' Miss Renault regarded her friend with something of adoration from beneath her black lashes . It was about five in the afternoon when they started out together under Virginia 's white parasol , Eugenie 's slimmer courage upheld by her friend 's bearing . We must remember that Virginia was young , and that her feelings were akin to those our great-grandmothers experienced when the British held New York . It was as if she had been born to wear the red and white of the South . Elderly gentlemen of Northern persuasion paused in their homeward walk to smile in admiration , -- some sadly , as Mr. Brinsmade .