nine o'clock
They were seated at a table ; two glasses of beer towered before them ; on their plates were odorous crumbs of Limburger cheese . They both wore a pensive air . The next morning the illusion that had wrapt the whole earth was gone with the moonlight . By nine o'clock , when the wedding-journeyers resumed their way toward Niagara , the heat had already set in with the effect of ordinary midsummer 's heat at high noon . The car into which they got had come the past night from Albany , and had an air of almost conscious shabbiness , griminess , and over-use . The seats were covered with cinders , which also crackled under foot . Dust was on everything , especially the persons of the crumpled and weary passengers of overnight .