six o'clock
In fact , it was the recent game that was being discussed in the tonneau , with Mr. Rose as chief speaker and Flavia as auditor . The party was of enchanting congeniality . They drove first to the hotel where Gerard had been stopping . It was quite six o'clock when the touring car rolled through Mr. Rose 's lawns and landscape-garden scenery , to come to a stop before the large , pink stone house of many columns . Mr. Rose had a passion for columns . Across the rug-strewn veranda a girl advanced to meet the arriving motorists ; an auburn-haired , high-colored girl who wore a tweed ulster over her light evening gown . `` I thought you were never coming , '' she reproached , imperiously aggrieved .