seven o’clock
`` Yes , madame . '' `` I shall take his carriage myself . He can have mine and my horses . Serve dinner at seven o'clock . '' `` Now , come with me , '' she said to Eugene , who thought as he sat in the banker 's carriage beside Mme. de Nucingen that he must surely be dreaming . `` To the Palais-Royal , '' she said to the coachman ; `` stop near the Theatre-Francais . '' She seemed to be too troubled and excited to answer the innumerable questions that Eugene put to her .