half past six
`` Lady Clifton-Wyatt will never forgive you -- or me . I 'll take you to her at once . '' `` Never mind Lady Clifton-Wyatt , '' he said . `` But I 've got another engagement for dinner -- with a man , at half past six . I wish I had n't . '' They were drifting with the twilight into an elegiac mood , suffering the sweet sorrow of parting . The gloaming steeped the dense woods , and the romance of sunset and gathering night saddened the business man 's soul , but wakened a new and unsuspected woman in Marie Louise .