six at night
This outcome of my adventure with the Sheik , in fact , restored my spirit , made me forget my pride , and , as you will see , was enough to put me in condition to receive that which was about to befall me . My thoughts as I entered the portico of that building where I had my apartments were not only of Julianna , but were also in those channels where I have no doubt your own opinion of my narrative must run . I freely admit , as I then was forced to admit , that my lovemaking had been attended with many bizarre and abnormal happenings ; yet at the time I sneered at the questions which rose in my own mind and bravely asserted to myself that the chances of winning Julianna were not wholly lost . In the lower hall of the building in which I had quarters there were stationed until six at night a telephone operator and a doorman . Perhaps you have noticed that I tell you these matters in considerable detail , and I will continue to do this , because my natural dread of disclosing the intimate affairs of my life has kept me heretofore from sharing my story with any one , and now that I have lifted the cover and drawn the veil of my experience , I can only find justification , in so narrating the sequence of extraordinary events , by observing the strictest adherence to detail and accuracy in the hope that perhaps you , by the virtue of a fresh and unprejudiced viewpoint , may be able to unravel some of the tangle in which I am , even now , enmeshed . As I have said , at six the telephone girl at the switchboard and the doorman , for some reason which I could never understand , were replaced by an old negro who served as both , and who was the most garrulous , indiscreet individual I have ever seen . As if to affirm these characteristics he spoke to me the moment I had entered , in a voice which seemed to be adapted to a general address to the three or four other bachelors who were waiting in the frescoed vestibule for a conveyance .