9 o’clock
Are not their very risks and vicissitudes more manly teachings than the small casualties of the polished world ? If life were all `` salon , '' taste perhaps might decide against them ; but it is not all `` salon , '' or , if it were , it would be a poorer thing even than I think it ! ' She turned to her desk as she said this , and wrote : -- ` DEAR MR. DONOGAN , -- I wish to thank you in person for the great kindness you have shown me , though there is some mistake on your part in the matter . I can not suppose you are able to come here openly , but if you will be in the garden on Saturday evening at 9 o'clock , I shall be there to meet you . I am , very truly yours , ` NINA KOSTALERGI . ' ` Very imprudent -- scarcely delicate -- perhaps , all this , and for a girl who is to be married to another man in some three weeks hence , but I will tell Cecil Walpole all when he returns , and if he desires to be off his engagement , he shall have the liberty . I have one-half at least of the Bayard Legend , and if I can not say I am `` without reproach , '' I am certainly without fear . '