10:30
At any rate , he never had been more my royal lover than in the five days since my accident . Indeed , since that day he had made but one trip to the city beside this with Harry Underwood , the return from which we were so anxiously awaiting . When the men left in the morning they had told us not to plan dinner at home , but to be ready to accompany them to a nearby resort for a `` shore dinner , '' as they were coming out on the 5 o'clock train . No wonder that at 10:30 Lillian and I were both anxious and irritated . Dicky 's behavior toward me , since death so nearly gripped me , certainly had given me no reason to doubt that his infatuation for Grace Draper was at an end . But no one except myself knew how apparently strong her hold had been on Dicky through the weeks of the late summer , nor how ruthless her own mad passion for him was . Had she reconsidered her bargain ?