six o'clock
`` It 's good for us , '' I said . `` Helps us to pluck and self-control . '' But nobody agreed with me , and it was Miss Van Buren 's opinion that none save Dutchmen would stand it . The Senate Room , which Niebuhr wrote of , found favor in her eyes ; but after that there was nothing more to do in the University , and it was only six o'clock . There were two hours before the surprise dinner ; so , without giving my secret away , I said that , if we put off dining until eight , we could see the Laeckenhalle , and go up to the Burg at sunset . The Laeckenhalle and the Burg were mere names to them , as few scraps are thrown to either place by the guide-books ; but so delighted were they with the carvings on the house of the Cloth Spinner 's Guild and the marbles in the courtyard that I could hardly get them inside . Once within , Starr made Miss Van Buren laugh at the things she ought to have respected and linger before the things I had n't intended to point out .