six o'clock
She went back to the chair where he had sat , and leaned her cheek against it . After a time she went slowly upstairs and into her room . When her maid came in she found her before the mirror of her dressing-table , staring at her reflection with hard , appraising eyes . Leslie 's partner , wandering into the hotel at six o'clock , found from the disordered condition of the room that Leslie had been back , had apparently bathed , shaved and made a careful toilet , and gone out again . Joe found himself unexpectedly at a loose end . Filled with suppressed indignation he commenced to dress , getting out a shirt , hunting his evening studs , and lining up what he meant to say to Leslie over his defection . Then , at a quarter to seven , Leslie came in , top-hatted and morning-coated , with a yellowing gardenia in his buttonhole and his shoes covered with dust .