half past seven
Therefore cheerfully delegating preservation your virtue while in Paris to Mlle. Athenais Reneaux , maiden lady mature charms whom I beg you will respect as you would my sister . Wishing you enjoyable intellectual evening -- `` W. '' It needed receipt of a petit-bleu , while he was dressing for dinner , to cure Lanyard of an attack of premonitory shivers brought on by recollection of the awful truth that one is never really safe in trifling with an Englishman 's sense of humour . `` Dear monsieur Martin : -- It is too sweet of you to remember your promise to ask me to dine the first time you came to Paris . Since you leave it to me , shall we say the Ritz , at half past seven ? In case your memory for faces is poor -- it has been a long time since we met , has n't it ? -- I shall be wearing the conventional fast black with my very best ingenue expression ; and my feather fan will be flame-coloured . `` Always to you -- `` Athenais Reneaux . ''