half past four
You six girls are supposed to be young millionairesses , very up-to-date-bachelor-girl type , intimate friends of the leading lady , who is a multi-millionairess that 's run away from home . You 've all got a few lines to say . Go to Mr. Quan and get your parts and have them up by to-night . '' At half past four that afternoon , when the regular chorus rehearsal was over , Rose asked John Galbraith if she might speak to him for a minute . He had one foot on a chair and was in the act of unlacing his dancing shoes , so he seemed to be , for him , comparatively permanent . He had a disconcerting way , she had noticed , of walking away on some business of his own in the middle of other people 's sentences , intending to come back , no doubt , in time to hear the end of them , but forgetting to . `` Fire away , '' he said , looking around at her over his shoulder .