six o'clock
He knew that Ruth idealized him far beyond his worth -- he could read it in her gaze , which was all but reverential . He said to himself , as he turned away , that a man never had so many motives to be true to the girl he was to marry . To bring the first shade of distrust into this little sister 's tender eyes would be punishment enough for any disloyalty , no matter what the cause might be . The wedding was to be at six o'clock . There was nothing about the whole affair , as it had been planned by Roberta , with his full assent , to make it resemble any event of the sort in which he had ever taken part . Not one consideration of custom or of vogue had had weight with her , if it differed from her carefully wrought-out views of what should be . Her ruling idea had been to make it all as simple and sincere as possible , to invite no guests outside her large family and his small one except such personal friends as were peculiarly dear to both .