six o'clock before
What more natural than that Adelaide should alter her resolution under the compulsion of circumstance , should spend the entire morning in the gardens , she with Ross , Henrietta with Arden ? Finally , to avoid strain upon her simple domestic arrangements in that period of retrenchment , what more natural than falling in with Ross 's proposal of lunch at Indian Mound ? And who ever came back in a hurry from Indian Mound , with its quaint vast earthworks , its ugly , incredibly ancient potteries and flint instruments that could be uncovered anywhere with the point of a cane or parasol ; its superb panorama , bounded by the far blue hills where , in days that were ancient when history began , fires were lighted by sentinels to signal the enemy 's approach to a people whose very dust , whose very name has perished ? It was six o'clock before they began the return drive ; at seven they were passing the Country Club , and , of course , they dined there and joined in the little informal dance afterwards ; and later , supper and cooling drinks in a corner of the veranda , with the moon streaming upon them and the enchanted breath of the forest enchaining the senses . What a day ! How obligingly all unpleasant thoughts fled ! How high and bright rose the mountains all round the horizon of the present , shutting out yesterday and to-morrow !