about eight o'clock at night
For answer she kissed him gently on the forehead , and then went out and brought back Rose . Immediately after the wedding Mr. Mitchel and his bride started west , intending to spend their honeymoon in the Yosemite Valley , having promised Mrs. Remsen and Dora , however , to join them in the White Mountains before the end of the season . About the first of July the Remsens and the Van Rawlstons went to Jefferson , New Hampshire , a small town along the base of the Pliny Range of mountains , from which a magnificent view of the Presidential Range , only ten miles away , is to be obtained . About the middle of the month Mr. Randolph determined to visit the same place , and was intensely disgusted on alighting from the stage , which reaches the Waumbeck Hotel about eight o'clock at night , to be greeted familiarly by Mr. Alphonse Thauret . It was evident that his rival did not intend to lose any chance to win the hand of Dora Remsen . If one has anything of the artistic in his nature he could scarcely fail to enjoy himself at Jefferson . The town is practically a single road , well up the side of the mountain range .