June nine o'clock
And so they had been drawn into an assignation at the old elm tree by the Causeway on Wandsworth Plain . Thus , if it had done nothing else to him , the Service for Men could be held responsible for throwing that meeting with Violet much too late . Still , he had no misgivings . It was June ; and in June nine o'clock was still daytime . And when he went to the Service he had n't any idea what it would do to him . No more , of course , had poor old Wauchope . Wauchope was grateful and apologetic ; before they got there he said he did n't know what he might be letting Ransome in for .