21:00
His only clear thought , as he shouldered his way into the late-afternoon throng outside CA , had been to escape from Kitty and from the too-vivid memory of Janice Wynn . Now that he must choose a course , he was brought up short by the fact that , so long as he was tailed by Jaffers ' men , there was literally no place for him to go . He could not go to his apartment because of Jaffers ' surveillance . He had no intention of meeting Janice Wynn at his Catskill cabin at 21:00 . Her obvious knowledge -- and , therefore , _ theirs _ -- of the location ruled that out as a refuge . He looked about for the inevitable man in gray and found him following at his careful hundred feet . The crowd caught and bore them both along like chips in a millrace , keeping the interval constant .