about half past six
`` I do n't know exactly . '' The coachman hurried to the house . `` If ye please , 'm , the Jenks boy says he saw them out in the little garden that joins the studio at about six . It 's about half past six , or so , now , 'm , an ' ye 've just reached home . I ca n't make out how ye missed them , but I think I 'll go over ter Mr. Kirtland 's house , and if he is n't out ter some reception , like he often is , I 'll ask the loan of his key , and with the gardener , I 'll hunt there first . I believe they 're there . '' Aunt Lois , now really wild with anxiety , could only say : `` Go , at once .