seven o'clock
The idea of linking his lot with hers would have appalled him , enthusiastically though he was in favor of it five years later . However , Mr Pilkington was unable to look into the future , so his reflections on this night of sorrow were not diverted from Jill . He thought sadly of Jill till two-thirty , when he fell asleep in his chair and dreamed of her . At seven o'clock his Japanese valet , who had been given the night off , returned home , found him , and gave him breakfast . After which , Mr Pilkington went to bed , played three games of solitaire , and slept till dinner-time , when he awoke to take up the burden of life again . He still brooded on the tragedy which had shattered him . Indeed , it was only two weeks later , when at a dance he was introduced to a red-haired girl from Detroit , that he really got over it .