eleven
o'clock
She did not recognise the fact , but the fact was there , that it was a necessity of her being to stand well in this man 's eyes . When a woman falls in love with a man or a man with a woman , the first necessity of his or her being is to stand well in the eyes of the loved one , anything that may bring ridicule or adverse criticism or disdain is death . Phyl was not in love with Richard Pinckney , nor had she been in love with him at Kilgobbin , all the same the sensitiveness to appearances felt by a lover was there . Her anger that night when he had let her in at eleven o'clock was due , perhaps , less to his implied reproof then the fact that she had felt cheap in his eyes , and now , sitting at dinner with Miss Pinckney the idea that he was still angry with her was obscured by the far more distasteful idea that she was of absolutely no account in his eyes , a creature to whom he had to be civil , an interloper . Her cheeks flushed and her eyes brightened at the thought , but Miss Pinckney did not notice it . She had turned from the subject of the Rhetts and their automobiles to Charleston society in general . `` Now that you 've come , '' said she , `` you will find there 's not a moment you wo n't enjoy yourself if you 're fond of gadding about .