six o'clock
Well , she did n't want him and that was the end of it . He did n't fill the present bill . She had never regretted her marriage , for he had quite measured up to the best feats of her maiden imagination . He made love charmingly , he was manly chivalrous and honorable , and his eager spontaneity of manner when he arrived home at six o'clock every evening never varied ; to whatever level of flatness he might drop immediately afterward . When they entered a ballroom or a restaurant she knew that they made a `` stunning couple '' and that people commented upon their good looks , their harmonious slenderness and inches , and contrasts in nature 's coloring . Alexina , almost unconsciously , sat down on a bench under the trees . Her mind sought the pleasant past as a brief respite from the present ; she knew that that part of her mind called heart was frozen by the suddenness of her mother 's death , and that her emotions would be fluid a few hours hence .