about six o'clock
Patty was rapidly learning that the true character can be very easily discovered among one 's travelling companions . There is something about the friction of travel that brings out all that is worst and best in one 's disposition . And so when Patty found that the Van Nesses were going to a different hotel from themselves she was really glad , though she hoped to see them occasionally during their stay in Paris . The train reached the Gare du Nord at about six o'clock , and when our party went into the rather dimly lighted station Patty thought she had never before seen such pandemonium . Everybody seemed to be in trouble of some sort . Some were running hither and thither , exclaiming and expostulating , but apparently to no avail . Others sat hopelessly and helplessly on their own luggage , seeming to despair of ever getting any further .