nine o'clock in the evening
Sally began to take off her hat again . `` I 'm not going out with him , '' she said . `` I shall hate it . '' `` Do n't be foolish -- put on that hat , and see what it 's like to be proposed to by an earnest young gentleman on the banks of a river , at nine o'clock in the evening . Go on -- do n't be foolish , Sally . It does a woman good to be proposed to -- teaches her manners -- go on . You may like him -- you do n't know . ''