six o'clock
He did not meet them even in going to and from his meals ; he could only imagine them served in those palatial state-rooms whose interiors the stewards now and then rather obtruded upon the public . There were people whom he encountered in the promenades when he got up for the sunrise , and whom he never saw at other times ; at midnight he met men prowling in the dark whom he never met by day . But none of these were people of the great world . Before six o'clock they were sometimes second-cabin passengers , whose barrier was then lifted for a little while to give them the freedom of the saloon promenade . From time to time he thought he would look up his Ohioan , and revive from a closer study of him his interest in the rare American who had never been to Europe . But he kept with his elderly wife , who had the effect of withholding him from March 's advances . Young Mr. and Mrs. Leffers threw off more and more their disguise of a long-married pair , and became frankly bride and groom .