eleven o'clock
If you gentlemen can work in a dance in the evening after each mountain climb , her happiness is assured . Here comes father . Mr. Bradford , you are to sit beside me at dinner and you , John , with Rosamond . '' After dinner Duffield and Miss Creech and Mr. Cornett and Miss Hall came in ; and the time until eleven o'clock was spent in chit-chat on the porch or , when Mrs. Neal could be prevailed upon to play the piano , in dancing in the drawing-room . Before the party broke up Bradford and Cornwall made an engagement to take Dorothy and Rosamond up the river fishing at 6:30 the next morning . As the boys went home they stopped by the livery stable to hire three saddle horses . Finding this impossible , they engaged a light jersey wagon , which Cornwall and the girls were to use , while Bradford was to ride Cornwall 's horse .