four o'clock
She took the early train in high good humour the next morning , clad in her most fetching frock . `` Even a stony-hearted manager could not be impervious to this hat , '' was her parting comment to her glass . She was very undecided as to whether she would go straight to Jarvis 's lodgings and surprise him , or wait until after the interview with Frohman . She finally decided that she could not wait until four o'clock , but that she would give Jarvis no hint of the coming momentous appointment . As she came into the city , she noted the bright , crisp winter day with pleasure -- very different from that spring day when she and Jarvis had entered the gates together . But to-day was to-day and she was glad of it . She took a taxi , with that sense of affluence which attacks one like a germ on entering the City of Spenders .