two o'clock
`` Go to bed , ducky , '' said Athalie . `` I 'll wait up for Catharine . '' So Doris took herself off to bed and Athalie sank into the shabby arm-chair by the radiator to wait for her other sister . It was two o'clock when she came in , flushed , vague-eyed , a rather silly and fixed smile on her doll-like face . Athalie , on the verge of sleep , rose from her chair , rubbing her eyes : `` What on earth , Catharine -- '' `` We had supper , -- that 's why I 'm late ... . I 've got to have a dinner gown I tell you . Genevieve 's is the smartest thing -- '' `` Where did you go ? ''