eight o'clock in the
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`` I think I had better go and start on him right away . '' `` Oh , do n't go yet ! '' they cried , and Marice Hading looked at him chidingly . But he had no heart for their gay arrangements , and took himself off after finally hearing that the date was fixed for two nights later , all cars to be at the `` Falcon '' at eight o'clock in the evening and the start to be made from there . Only a legitimate reason would have kept Gay away from a jolly given in Druro 's honour . But she expected to have that reason in the indisposition of her father , who had been ailing for some time . She was not sorry , for she felt a shrinking from what the picnic might bring forth , just as she had felt on the night of Mrs. Hading 's dance .