six o’clock in the evening
She had on a dressing-gown . He looked up and bowed . She nodded quickly and reclosed the window . Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the evening to come , but on going to the inn , he found no one but Monsieur Binet , already at table . The dinner of the evening before had been a considerable event for him ; he had never till then talked for two hours consecutively to a `` lady . '' How then had he been able to explain , and in such language , the number of things that he could not have said so well before ? He was usually shy , and maintained that reserve which partakes at once of modesty and dissimulation .