one o'clock
She 's moaning awful . '' Gertie 's appendix , with that innate sense of the dramatic so often found in temperamental appendices , had indeed chosen this moment to call attention to itself . Gertie , the demurely pretty and quietly charming , was rolled in a very tight ball on the workroom cutting-table . At one o'clock , she was on her way home in a cab , under the care of a doctor , Miss Kelly , the bookkeeper , and Jock , who , coming in gaily at one , had been pressed into service , bewildered but willing . Three rather tragic figures stared at one another in the junior partner 's office . They were Emma , Buck , and Grace Galt , Jock 's wife-to-be . Grace Galt , slim , lovely , girlish , was known , at twenty-four , as one of the most expert copy writers in the advertising world .