half after six
Then Bagsby brushed the leaves off the steps , and as Daphne pleasantly expressed it : _ Wo n't you step into my parlor ? Said the spider to the fly . _ Mrs. Stafford , Violet and Lady Jane arrived that afternoon , after having waited to send the wire on which the conspiracy was hung . They put themselves into negligees and the hands of their maids at once , and were still dressing when Ernestine and I , the advance guard , started with the hamper of cold supper at half after six . Things went wrong from that moment . Ernestine started to recite her speech to me as we went down the drive , found she had forgotten everything but the first sentence , which began , like The Walrus and the Carpenter , `` The time has come -- '' and had to go back for the manuscript . We had to leave her for the second trip .