Ten minutes past
four
She was bound for a workers ' meeting in a somewhat dilapidated Settlement House in the slums , which only the other day had been an abandoned hotel , for cause . And never in her vivid life had she dressed with greater care ... . She gazed down , upon a street which she did not see . Ten minutes past four : but twenty minutes more , out of the long day . By now , he had already left the Works for the Dabney House ... . And she was thinking that never but once had he made a personal remark to her : when he had thought , among the hard things , that she was lovely to the eye . But all that was a long , long time ago ... .