nine
o'clock
What Halsey said to Mrs. Armstrong I never knew , but that he was considerate and chivalrous I feel confident . It was Halsey 's way always with women . He and Louise had no conversation together until that night . Gertrude and Alex -- I mean Jack -- had gone for a walk , although it was nine o'clock , and anybody but a pair of young geese would have known that dew was falling , and that it is next to impossible to get rid of a summer cold . At half after nine , growing weary of my own company , I went downstairs to find the young people . At the door of the living-room I paused . Gertrude and Jack had returned and were there , sitting together on a divan , with only one lamp lighted .