Ten o'clock
This girl -- this Myra Thornhill -- he remembered , had herself been a victim . After Kendrick disappeared she had come there no more , for there were ugly rumors of the man who had fled . Mr. Magee saw the girl and her long-absent lover whispering together in the firelight ; he wondered if they , too , imagined themselves at Baldpate in the summer ; if they heard the waltz in the casino , and the laughter of men in the grill-room . Ten o'clock , said the town hall pompously . She was at the station now . In the room of her tears she was waiting ; perhaps her only companion the jacky of the `` See the World '' poster , whose garb was but a shade bluer than her eyes . Who was she ?