half past seven
What weak vanity -- to be piqued by this girl 's lack of interest ! '' Nevertheless -- he at six o'clock telephoned to the Burroughs ' house that he was detained down town . He sent away his motor , dined alone in the station restaurant in Jersey City . And at half past seven he set out in a cab in search of -- what ? He did not dare answer that interrogation . Like many another chance explorer from New York , Norman was surprised to discover that , within a few minutes of leaving the railway station , his cab was moving through a not unattractive city . He expected to find the Hallowells in a tenement in some more or less squalid street overhung with railway smoke and bedaubed with railway grime .