about a quarter to eight
Janice did not attempt to shriek any counter-advice , and while she was gone to find Jack , her mistress brushed herself in some places , soaped herself in others , and considered her toilet made . When Janice returned she caught up a loose lock of hair , and put the placket-hole of her skirt square in the middle of Aunt Mary 's back , and dared go no further . There was an air even about the back of Jack 's influential aunt which forbade too much liberty to those dealing with her . Aunt Mary descended the stairs about half-past nine ; she thought it was about a quarter to eight , but the difference between the hour that it was and the hour that she thought that it was will be all the same a hundred years from now . Jack came out of the Louis XIV . drawing room when he heard her step in the hall . There was another young man with him .