Five
o'clock
She was twenty-four . She knew the social game , and its risks , better than two years before ... . So she was very kind to Duncan , -- she really liked him extremely , rather for what he was without than for what he had , -- and when she left it was understood between them that the Californian should return to his ranch by the way of Chicago and meet Milly there on a certain day , -- Monday , the first of September . He was very particular , sentimentally so , about this date , -- kept repeating it , -- and they made little jokes of it until Milly even particularized the hour when she could be free to see him , -- `` Five o'clock , 31 East Acacia Street , -- had n't you better write it down ? '' But Duncan thought he could remember it very well . `` We 'll go somewhere for dinner , '' Milly promised . That was all , but it was a good deal for the shy Edgar Duncan to have arrived at .