eight in the evening
`` You are exceedingly vulgar , '' she said , `` but since you insist on that figure of speech , you in America have waited a long time for the bath , and if you continue your present methods you wo n't get it before you need it . '' Now that they had thought of it , they were all frantic for fear Mrs. Cobden-Fitzjames and the Woman 's Liberty League might think of it , too , kidnap the Prime Minister , and leave us a miserable president of the Local Government Board or a wretched under-secretary of something or other . The plan we evolved before the meeting broke up was to send a wire to Mrs. Gresham , the Premier 's daughter , that he had been delayed , and to meet a later train . Then , Daphne 's motor would meet the proper train -- he was to arrive somewhere between seven and eight in the evening -- carry his Impressiveness to Harcourt Hall and deliver him into the hands of the enemy . As Violet Harcourt-Standish voiced it : the motor gone , the railway miles away , what can he do ? He will keep awake , because he will have slept in the train going down , and we can give him a cold supper . Nothing heavy to make him drowsy .