five in
the afternoon
She herself was happy to-day as she could not remember ever to have been happy in her life . For the first time she was passing among decent people decently ; and then -- it was the great hope beyond which she did n't look -- the prince might read with her again that evening . But as she turned from Fifth Avenue into East Sixty-seventh Street the prince was approaching his door from the other direction . Even she was aware that it was contrary to his habits to appear at home by five in the afternoon . She did n't know , of course , that Barbara had so stimulated his enthusiasm for the educational course that he had come on the chance of taking it up at the tea hour . He could not remember that Barbara had ever before been so sympathetic to one of his ideas . The fact encouraged his feeble belief in himself , and made him love her with richer tenderness .