eleven o'clock
She would come down from her high horse -- with help and encouragement from him . He was impatient to get to the office and see just how she would do it -- what absurd , amusing attractive child 's trick she would think out , imagining she could fool him , as lesser intelligences are ever fatuously imagining they can outwit greater . He rather thought she would come in to see him on some pretext , would maneuver round like a bird pretending to flutter away from the trap it has every intention of entering . But eleven o'clock of a wasted morning came and she did not appear . He went out to see if she was there -- she must be sick ; she could not be there or he would have heard from her ... . Yes , she was at her desk , exactly as always . No , not exactly the same .