Seven o'clock
`` So , if you are agreeable , '' said Emil , `` we will meet at seven o'clock . '' She was on the point of replying : `` So late as that ? '' -- but , remembering her resolution not to compromise herself , she refrained and answered instead : `` Very well , at seven . '' `` Seven o'clock at ... where ? ... Out of doors , shall we say ? In that case we could go wherever we fancied , life would lie before us , so to speak ... yes . '' He seemed to her just then remarkably absent-minded .