nine in the evening
`` Then I 'm going home , Jean . You 're perfectly certain that she 'll be engaged ? You 're sure this is the night he was coming ? '' Having duly assured Eleanor that Professor Morris and Miss Raymond had taken lunch at the Westcott House and that Miss Mills had been invited out to dinner with them , Jean went home to inform her roommate that Eleanor Watson was in more trouble over her English work -- that she was rushing around the campus at nine in the evening , trying to find Miss Raymond . Eleanor , left to herself at last , turned and went slowly back to the Belden House . Betty looked up in astonishment when she appeared in the door . `` How 'd you happen to change your mind ? ''