half past six
`` The weather is always more settled in July than in August , '' said M. Kaufmann-Levi , `` and I would n't worry about the return trip just now . I have rooms for you gentlemen all on one floor of a hotel near the Opera , and taximeters are in waiting . After you have settled we will take dinner together . '' Thus it happened that , at half past six that evening , M. Kaufmann-Levi conducted his four guests from the Restaurant Marguery to a sidewalk table of the Café de la Paix , and for almost an hour they watched the crowd making its way to the Opera . `` You see , Moe , '' Abe said , `` everything is tunics this year ; tunics _ oder _ chiffon overskirts , net collars and yokes . '' Moe nodded absently . His eyes were glued to a lady sitting at the next table .