six o'clock
This was not a cheerful outlook for Harold , whose thoughts were more intent upon cream and dancing than upon showing the people where to go , and it was also the second time the word waiter had been used in connection with what he was expected to do . But Harold was too young to understand that he was not of the party itself . Later on it would come to him fast enough , that he was only a part of the machinery which moved the social engine . Now , he felt like the engine itself , and long before six o'clock he was dressed , and waiting anxiously for his grandmother 's permission to start . ' ` I 'll tell you all about it , ' he said to her . ` What they do , and what they say , and what they wear , and if I can , I 'll speak to Mr. Arthur Tracy and thank him for mother 's grave-stone . ' By seven o'clock he was on his way to the park , walking rapidly , and occasionally saying aloud with a gesture of his hand to the right and the left , and a bow almost to the ground .