six o'clock
She admired Ruth and she admired Denry , and between them they were spoiling the little thing 's holiday for their own adult purposes . Nellie knew that dreadful occurrences were in the air -- occurrences compared to which the storm at sea was a storm in a tea-cup . She knew partly because Ruth had been so queenly polite , and partly because they had come separately to St Asaph 's Road and had not spent the entire afternoon together . So quickly do great events loom up and happen that at six o'clock they had had tea and were on their way afoot to the station . The odd man of No. 26 St Asaph 's Road had preceded them with the luggage . All the rest of Llandudno was joyously strolling home to its half-past six high tea -- grand people to whom weekly bills were as dust and who were in a position to stop in Llandudno for ever and ever , if they chose ! And Ruth and Nellie were conscious of the shame which always afflicts those whom necessity forces to the railway station of a pleasure resort in the middle of the season .