seven o’clock
The masculine party is very dull , or the feminine very deceptive , when a man makes a mistake in his impressions on this subject . That afternoon the young editor left his office at five o'clock and asked Miss Lawrence to be his wife . PRESTON CHENEY walked briskly down the street after he left his fiancée , his steps directed toward the Palace . It was seven o'clock , and he knew the Baroness would be at home . He had determined upon heroic treatment for his own mental disease -LRB- as he regarded his peculiar sentiments toward Berene Dumont -RRB- , and he had decided upon a similar course of treatment for the Baroness . He would confide his engagement to her at once , and thus put an end to his embarrassing position in the Palace , as well as to establish his betrothal as a fact -- and to force himself to so regard it . It was strange reasoning for a young man in the very first hour of his new rôle of bridegroom elect , but this particular groom elect had deliberately placed himself in a peculiar position , and his reasoning was not , of course , that of an ardent and happy lover .