eight o'clock in the
morning
`` I have n't a cent with me -- '' `` Let me be your banker , '' he said lightly . Gloria hesitated . But very briefly . Hot coffee had done much for her drooping courage ; the escapade , even this going at eight o'clock in the morning into a country store with a man , and on money borrowed from the man , was an experience to put the gay note of adventure back into the affair . Gloria made her purchases in fifteen minutes and the change from theatre gown into an olive outing-suit in another fifteen . Her discarded garments were gathered up , put into a cardboard box by the clerk , and wrapped in heavy paper to be stowed away in the car . She confronted Gratton smilingly in her new garb , her hands in her pockets , her face saucy , her slim body boyish in its swagger and richly feminine in its unhidden curves .