seven A.M.
Her anxieties were at once running about to gather provisions for the baskets . She spoke of them at night . But Victor had already put the matter in the hands of Madame Callet ; and all that could be done , would be done by Armandine , he knew . ` If she ca n't muster enough at home , she 'll be off to her Piccadilly shop by seven A.M. Count on plenty for twice the number . ' Nataly was reposing on the thought that they were her friends , when Victor mentioned his having in the afternoon despatched a note to his relatives , the Duvidney ladies , inviting them to join him at the station to-morrow , for a visit of inspection to the house of his building on his new estate . He startled her . The Duvidney ladies were , to his knowledge , of the order of the fragile minds which hold together by the cement of a common trepidation for the support of things established , and have it not in them to be able to recognize the unsanctioned .