five o'clock
And the thought gave to her marriage a deeper meaning than that of mere youthful raptures . He had put her on the train that morning reluctantly , and had promised to call her up the moment she reached town . So her journey toward Washington on the evening train was an hour of anticipation . To those who rode with her , she seemed a very pretty and self-contained young person making a perfectly proper and commonplace trip on the five o'clock express -- in her own mind , she was set apart from all the rest by the fact of her transcendant romance . Her father met her at the station and put her into a taxi . All the way home she sat with her hand in his . `` Did you have a good time ? ''