ten o'clock
She do n't kiss easily . '' Mrs. John said that he ought to know . The party was anything but dull . Lady Maria dined with seven other people , the best that could be mustered on short notice -- and Sanchia came in at ten o'clock , when the drawing-room was full . She came with an elderly friend , a Mrs. Quantock , whose acquaintance she had made in an omnibus , and renewed at the British Museum . Mrs. Quantock was an authoress by profession , a poetess by temperament . Her emotions , not always under control , consorted oddly with her broad and placid face .