six o'clock
And , really , I ask you , Helen , is it reasonable to expect a man to give up a long-standing engagement and take that dreary journey up to that dreary place -- I 've never seen the Liverpool docks , but I can imagine them at six o'clock in the morning -- is it reasonable , I say , to expect that of any man ? It was n't as if I was n't to see her the next day . ' Again Helen carefully considered . ` I suppose she found the docks very dreary -- at six o'clock , ' she suggested . ` But surely that 's not a reason for wanting me to find them dreary too , ' Gerald laughed rather impatiently . ` I 'd have had to go up to Liverpool on Thursday and spend the night there ; do you realise that ? ' Helen went on with the theme of the docks : ` I suppose she would n't have found them so dreary if you 'd been on them ; and I suppose she expected you not to find them dreary for the same reason . '