six o'clock
`` I have seen enough débutantes looking ready for the hospital the first week they came out . '' So I was alone that evening , and mother and father had gone to a dinner . I was sulky , I do n't mind saying . At six o'clock a box of flowers had come , but they were only from Henry and not exciting . `` Thought I 'd send them to-day , '' he wrote on his card . `` Did n't like the idea of my personal offering nailed to the club wall . '' About nine o'clock I put on my silk dressing gown and went down to the library for the book about the girl who always had her hand in the man 's coat pocket .