Half past seven
Mrs. Ingraham grew more Yankee in her dialect , -- as the Scotch grow more Scotch , -- with warming up to the subject . Sunderline laughed . `` Well , I must go , '' he said ; `` though you do look so bright and cosy here . Half past seven 's the last train , and there 's a little job at home I promised mother I 'd do to-night . I 've been so busy lately that I have n't had any hammer and nails of my own . Ray ! '' He had come round behind her chair , where she had seated herself at her sewing .