about nine o'clock in the evening
And now everything is against Larry and me . We must go where the tide takes us . '' She did n't use as flowery language as that , but it 's difficult to quote Patty in the vernacular . Well , we crawled home after a while , Jack and I. And nothing more happened that day , except that Pat ` phoned me from her ruinous home about nine o'clock in the evening , to say `` Mistaire '' Caspian had come back . He had bought the Stanislaws house and paid for it , but she had refused to accept the gift . `` It must be _ his _ , not mine , '' she said . `` I understand that he would not have bought it except for my sake , so already I owe him a big debt of gratitude .