four o'clock
Slender and tall and very aristocratic she appeared , her profile alone visible to the passers-by . After a very few moments , waiting in her trap , the smart young woman became impatient . A severe , little pucker settled upon her brow , and not once , but many times her eyes turned to the broad entrance across the sidewalk . She had telephoned to her father earlier in the afternoon ; and he had promised faithfully to be ready at four o'clock for a spin up the drive behind Spartan . At three minutes past four the pucker made its first appearance ; and now , several minutes later , it was quite distressing . Never before had he kept her waiting like this . She was conscious of the fact that at least a hundred men had stared at her in the longest ten minutes she had ever known .