eleven o'clock
Got to work on ` The Purple Slipper ' while you people frolic . Good-night ! '' With which refusal and taunt Mr. Vandeford left Mr. Farraday at the door of his apartment-house . Mr. Farraday looked at his watch as he started away from the curb , found the hour to be eleven o'clock , wabbled the machine first to the right and then to the left , and finally turned down-town , in which direction the Claridge reared its twelve stories of masonry at the corner of Forty-fourth and Sixth . At about that minute these were the remarks exchanged through the open door that connected two little cell-like rooms at the Y. W. C. A. : `` Are n't you going to bed right away ? I 'm so sleepy that I 'm brushing my face instead of my hair , '' Miss Adair called to Miss Lindsey . A desperate and continual desire for sleep is the pest that haunts the rural visitor to New York and Miss Adair 's young health was easily its prey .