nearly seven o'clock
Smith went to the exit and looked after him . The man 's face wore a good-humored sneer . It was as though he said : `` You wait a bit , my dandy shuffer -- you ai n't through with his Countship yet -- not by any manner o ' means . '' And Medenham did wait , till nearly seven o'clock . He saw Cynthia and her companions come out of Gough 's Cave and enter Cox 's . These fairy grottoes of nature 's own contriving were well worthy of close inspection , he knew . Nowhere else in the world can stalactites that droop from the roof , stalagmites that spring from the floor , be seen in such perfection of form and tint .