six o'clock
he cried . `` For several years Madge -- who is this young lady -- and I have been in love , and we wish to be married this evening , but her father and my father are waiting at the foot of the elevator at this minute , and they have been waiting there all day . There is no other way for us to leave the building , for the foot of the stairs is also the foot of the elevator , and , in fact , when I last peeped , Madge 's father was sitting on the bottom step . It is now exactly fifteen minutes of six , and at six o'clock they mean to come up and tear Madge and me away , and have us married . '' `` To -- '' I began . `` To each other , '' said the young man with emotion . `` But I thought that was what you wanted ? ''