Eleven o'clock Monday morning
She was in the position of one who is on the inside , looking out . Those other women urging this cause or that were on the outside , striving to peer in . The Movement struck T. A. Buck 's at eleven o'clock Monday morning . Eleven o'clock Monday morning in the middle of a busy fall season is not a propitious moment for idle chit-chat . The three women who stepped out of the lift at the Buck Company 's floor looked very much out of place in that hummingly busy establishment and appeared , on the surface , at least , very chit-chatty indeed . So much so , that T. A. Buck , glancing up from the cards which had preceded them , had difficulty in repressing a frown of annoyance . T. A. Buck , during his college-days , and for a lamentably long time after , had been known as `` Beau '' Buck , because of his faultless clothes and his charming manner .