about eleven o'clock
I do not believe there is any one in this part of the country who dresses better than she does . '' I laughed , and told her that I thought I knew somebody who dressed much finer even than Miss Putney , and then I described the incident of the Duke 's dressing-gown . This delighted them all , and before I left I was obliged to give every detail of my gorgeous attire . It was about eleven o'clock when at last I tore myself away from this most attractive little family . To live as they lived , to be interested in the things that interested them -- for the house seemed filled with books and pictures -- to love nature , to love each other , and to think well of their fellow-beings , even of the super-rich -- seemed to me to be an object for which a man of my temperament should be willing to strive and thankful to win . After meeting her parents I did not wonder that I had thought the slender girl so honest-hearted and so lovable . It was true that I had thought that .