about nine o'clock
When Glover returned to the hotel at five o'clock the first person he saw was Mrs. Whitney . She and Marie , with the doctor and Allen Harrison , had arrived on the first train out of the Springs in four days , and Mrs. Whitney 's greeting of Glover in the office was disconcerting . It scarcely needed Gertrude 's face at dinner , as she tried to brave the storm that had set in , or her reluctant admission when she saw him as she passed up to her room that she and her father had been up nearly the whole of the night before , to complete his depression . Every effort he made during the evening to speak to Gertrude was balked by some untoward circumstance , but about nine o'clock they met on the parlor floor and Glover led her to the elevator , which was being run that night by Solomon Battershawl . Solomon lifted them to the top floor and made busy at the end of the hall while they had five short minutes . When they descended he knew what she was facing . Even Marie , the one friend he thought he had in the family , had taken a stand against them , and her father was deaf to every appeal .