six o'clock
`` You must not come out of your way , '' she said . Then she added . `` I am sure you must go back to the store . It is only six o'clock . '' Had Virginia but known , this occasional tartness in her speech gave Eliphalet an infinite delight , even while it hurt him . His was a nature which liked to gloat over a goal on the horizon He cared not a whit for sweet girls ; they cloyed . But a real lady was something to attain .