nine o'clock in the evening
The cinema was horribly disappointing , because they were all American films , not French ones ; but that light that falls from the domed roof down on to Napoleon 's tomb was worth coming across the Channel to see . Yes , Mummie dear , I thoroughly like Paris . I 'm only sorry we have to leave it so soon . '' The train for Rome was to start at nine o'clock in the evening , and immediately after dinner the Beverleys made their way to the station . It would be a thirty-eight hour journey , and they had engaged two sleeping compartments , _ wagon-lits _ as they are called on the Continental express . Mrs. Beverley and Irene were to share one , and Mr. Beverley and Vincent the other . The beds were arranged like berths on board ship , and Irene , who occupied the upper one , found , much to her amusement , a little ladder placed in readiness for her climb aloft .