six o’clock
Paul turned off as quickly as if he had been caught in the act of spying . He gave up his cab -- he preferred to walk ; he would go nowhere else . He was glad St. George had n't renounced his visit altogether -- that would have been too absurd . Yes , the world was magnanimous , and even he himself felt so as , on looking at his watch , he noted but six o'clock , so that he could mentally congratulate his successor on having an hour still to sit in Miss Fancourt 's drawing-room . He himself might use that hour for another visit , but by the time he reached the Marble Arch the idea of such a course had become incongruous to him . He passed beneath that architectural effort and walked into the Park till he got upon the spreading grass . Here he continued to walk ; he took his way across the elastic turf and came out by the Serpentine .