6 o'clock
`` Let it be the last Thursday of next month at 6 o'clock , '' she replies , and is far more peaceful than when David Lockwin asked her to marry him far on in the long ago , for on that night she cried . `` I suppose the number of guests should be small , '' he notes . `` Only our nearest friends . A Thursday , dear , at 6 o'clock . '' The neighborhood is agog . The servants outdo each other in gossip . There are household arrangements which are to turn a gloomy abode into a merry dwelling-place .