six o'clock
But still they had not returned . In a kind of aimless rage she went home , wondering how she should reach Rita Sohlberg first and alone . Then , to her savage delight , the game walked into her bag . The Sohlbergs , returning home at six o'clock from some reception farther out Michigan Avenue , had stopped , at the wish of Harold , merely to pass the time of day with Mrs. Cowperwood . Rita was exquisite in a pale-blue and lavender concoction , with silver braid worked in here and there . Her gloves and shoes were pungent bits of romance , her hat a dream of graceful lines . At the sight of her , Aileen , who was still in the hall and had opened the door herself , fairly burned to seize her by the throat and strike her ; but she restrained herself sufficiently to say , `` Come in . ''