six o’clock
She heard it and turned from the fire . Certainly Craven would not call now . It was too late . Only a very intimate friend would be likely to call after six o'clock , and Craven was not a very intimate friend , but only a new acquaintance whom she had been with twice . When he had said good-bye to her after their long talk by the fire on the night of the dinner in Soho she had said nothing about his coming again . And he had not mentioned it . But she had felt then that to speak of such a thing was quite unnecessary , that it was tacitly understood between them that of course he would come again , and soon .