eight o'clock
`` I 've been waiting hungrily until some discriminating smoker would buy one of those and light it . I love the aroma . '' And he stood there for thirty minutes , standing mostly on one foot on account of the gouty one , puffing like a locomotive , with her sniffing at the aroma and telling him how lonely she felt with no friends around and just recovering from a severe illness . At eight o'clock he had Mrs. Hutchins bring him his fur-lined coat and he and Miss Julia took Arabella , the dog , for a walk on the veranda ! The rest of the evening was quiet , and I needed it . Miss Patty and Mr. von Inwald talked by the fire and I think he told her something -- not all -- of the scene in the spring-house . For she passed Mr. Pierce at the foot of the stairs on her way up for the night and she pretended not to see him .