nine o'clock
She was new to the stage , and little was known of her , but it was whispered that she had something in common with the character she personated . Her success had been instantaneous : her photograph was in the shop windows , it had been reproduced in the illustrated papers , she had sat to famous artists , and her portrait in oils was on the line at Burlington House . The play was the latest work of the Scandinavian dramatist , the actress was Glory Quayle . At nine o'clock on the morning of Derby Day Glory was waiting in the drawing-room of the Garden House , dressed in a magnificent outdoor costume of pale gray which seemed to wave like a ripe hayfield . She looked paler and more nervous than before , and sometimes she glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece and sometimes looked away in the distance before her while she drew on her long white gloves and buttoned them . Rosa Macquarrie came upstairs hurriedly . She was smartly dressed in black with red roses and looked bright and brisk and happy .