two o'clock
Up to the present she had found cards far more interesting , particularly as she had known all the Rosewater men since childhood ; more particularly , perhaps , as this was her first large party . She chattered , partly by instinct , partly in deference to the traditional animation of the American girl ; and it was quite likely that the ultimate man would lead her to the altar under the delusion that she was a brilliant woman with a genuine temperament . Isabel wondered somewhat contemptuously at Gwynne 's evident enthusiasm ; she would have given him credit for more experience and perspicacity ; but concluded that at a party a man could only judge a girl by her exterior charms ; and certainly Dolly had all her goods in the front window . After supper they danced the old Virginia reel with great zest , and even a few stray waltzes , then all left together at two o'clock ; the older women assuring Isabel formally that they had had a very pleasant evening ; but the girls and young men exclaimed that they had had a keen time , a dandy time , and that their new hostess was too fine and dandy for words . Judge Leslie returned on the following day , and , sending for Gwynne at once , announced that he was ready to settle down for the winter . A partner attended to the business of the office , and the judge shut himself up with Gwynne in the large light room containing his fine law library , and examined his promising pupil . Gwynne was well read in the English Common Law , and in Comparative Jurisprudence , particularly in the history of treaties and the comity of nations .