seven o'clock
But if this young man went she too must go . She could not outstay him in the rooms of his friend . So she talked on , and Temple was just as much at her mercy as Betty had been at the mercy of the brother artist in the rabbit warren at Long Barton . But at seven o'clock Vernon had not returned , and it was , after all , Temple who saw her home . Temple , free from the immediate enchantment of her presence , felt the revival of a resentful curiosity . Why had Betty refused his help ? Why had she sought Vernon 's ?