five o'clock
-- one might actually _ gain _ by the outlay . The visitors lingered to gaze at the pretty china , and glass , and embroideries with which Delphine had filled her stall ; but the afternoon wore on , and it looked as full as ever -- horribly full ! There were none of those bare , blank spaces which stall-holders love to see . At five o'clock we marked off the odd sixpences ; at six o'clock we dropped a whole shilling , but still -- hardly a sale ! Delphine looked -- a vision ! At the first glimpse of her in her cobweb fineries , I was ill-bred enough to gape , whereat she blushed and said hurriedly : -- '' _ Your _ dressmaker ! Yes !