Seven o'clock
`` Sort of poetical justice , '' he suggested . `` Well , it is -- sort of , '' said Mavering , with a shamefaced consciousness . `` What train are you going back on ? '' `` Seven o'clock . '' `` I 'll be there . '' He hurried back to rejoin the ladies , and Boardman saw him , after some parley and laughter , get into the coupe , from which he inferred that they had turned down the little seat in front , and made him take it ; and he inferred that they must be very jolly , sociable girls . He did not see Mavering again till the train was on its way , when he came in , looking distraughtly about for his friend .