about two o’clock
In those days , he said , there had been no unions -- he told with a quiet smile how he had broken them . Now again `` agitators '' had crept in , so that in some of the camps the men were being moved out bodily , and replaced by foreigners , who knew a good job when they had it . To make this change had taken the militia ; but it would be done thoroughly , and afterwards there would be no more trouble . The supper-party broke up about two o'clock , and Miss Raymond , the lady of the flamingo hat , was the only one who showed any effects from all the wine that had been consumed . Thyrsis , to his great surprise discovered that his host had taken a fancy to him , and had asked Miss Lewis to bring him out to luncheon at the Creston place in the country . And so came the wonderful experience which brought to him the vision of `` The Utopians . '' Section 9 .