six o'clock
At Campobello he had thought Miss Anderson a very jolly girl , bright , and up to all sorts of things ; but in the presence of the portable Boston there he could not help regarding her with a sort of tolerance which he now blushed for ; he thought he had been a great ass . She seemed to know all sorts of nice people , and she strove with generous hospitality to make him have a good time . She said it was Cabinet Day , and that all the secretaries ' wives were receiving , and she told him he had better make the rounds with them . He assented very willingly , and at six o'clock he was already so much in the spirit of this free and simple society , so much opener and therefore so much wiser than any other , that he professed a profound disappointment with the two or three Cabinet ladies whose failure to receive brought his pleasure to a premature close . `` But I suppose you 're going to Mrs. Whittington 's to-night ! '' Miss Anderson said to him , as they drove up to Wormley 's , where she set him down . Miss Van Hook had long ceased to say anything ; Dan thought her a perfect duenna .