six o'clock
She stayed during the week at a hotel called the Red House , in Magpie Alley , off Bouverie Street . It was a hotel kept by revolutionary souls exclusively for revolutionary souls . Gerda , who had every right there , had gained admittance through friends of hers who lodged there . Every evening at six o'clock she went back through the rain , as she did this evening , and changed her wet clothes and sat down to dinner , a meal which all the revolutionary souls ate together so that it was sacramental , a breaking of common bread in token of a common faith . They were a friendly party . At one end of the table Aunt Phyllis presided . Aunt Phyllis , who was really the aunt of only one young man , kept this Red House .