eight o'clock
The King of England was in Paris , and the President of the United States was hourly expected . Humbler guests poured each night from the termini into the overflowing city , and sought anxiously for some bed , lounge-chair , or pillowed corner , in which to rest until the morning . Stretched upon the table in a branch of the Y.W.C.A. lay a young woman from England whose clothes were of brand-new khaki , and whose name was Fanny . She had arrived that night at the Gare du Nord at eight o'clock , and the following night at eight o'clock she left Paris by the Gare de l'Est . Just as she entered the station a small boy with a basket of violets for sale held a bunch to her face . `` No , thank you . '' He pursued her and held it against her chin .