Although Ruby Gregory had truly given up hope on the marriage proposal, she couldn't help feeling a twinge of disappointment when she heard two people discussing how their fiancés had proposed to them as she was in the city's beauty parlor, getting her hair and makeup done in the afternoon with the car sent by the Burtons.
Ruby had a spa treatment, got her makeup done, and chose an evening dress. It was already 6:30 PM when she left, and Steve Burton personally picked her up.
Ruby's birthday dinner was booked for 8 PM, and the beauty salon was quite far from the Grand Capital Hotel. Traffic was congested on the road, so by the time Steve and Ruby arrived at the hotel, it was already 7:50 PM.
As the guests had almost all arrived at the banquet hall, Howard Coleman, who had also been discharged from the hospital, arrived with Madeleine.
