six o'clock
When Gertrude found she could not , even after a brave effort , ride with her back to the engine , and accepted so graciously Mr. Blood 's offer to change seats , it brought her beside Glover ; after that his memory failed . In the morning he felt miserably overdone , as at Sleepy Cat a man might after running a preliminary half way to heaven . Moreover , when they parted he had , he remembered , undertaken to dine the following evening at the Springs . When he entered the apartments of the Pittsburg party at six o'clock , Mrs. Whitney reproached him for his absence during their month at Glen Tarn , and in Mrs. Whitney 's manner , peremptorily . `` I 'm sure we 've missed seeing everything worth while about here , '' she complained . Her annoyance put Glover in good humor . Marie met him with a gentler reproach .