half past seven
Persis listened without comment . She had worked unusually hard that week , and the tired lines of her face acknowledged as much . She set them at defiance in a peculiarly feminine fashion by dressing that evening in the unbecoming henrietta and doing her hair in the plainest , most severe fashion . At half past seven Thomas Hardin came . `` That Ware feller is going to put up at the Clematis House . He 's a big bug all right . Wanted a private setting-room , he did , '' Thomas chuckled .