nine o’clock
`` Campden Hill Road , Saturday . `` My dear Lord Worthington , -- I have not forgotten my promise to obtain for you a near view of the famous Mrs. Herbert -- ` Madame Simplicita , ' as you call her . She will be with us to-morrow evening ; and we shall be very happy to see you then , if you care to come . At nine o'clock , Herr Abendgasse , a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine , will read us a paper on ` The True in Art ' ; but I will not pay you the compliment of pretending to believe that that interests you , so you may come at ten or half-past , by which hour all the serious business of the evening will be over . '' `` Well , there is nothing like cheek , '' said Lord Worthington , breaking off in his perusal . `` These women think that because I enjoy life in a rational way I do n't know the back of a picture from the front , or the inside of a book from the cover . I shall go at nine sharp . ''