eight to ten o'clock
`` No matter , our marriage makes us free , '' exclaimed Maria Louisa , impatiently . `` We are then at least our own mistresses , and need submit no longer to the restraints imposed on us . The example of our third mother , the Empress Ludovica , shows it . She has taken the liberty to pay no attention to etiquette , and holds a reception at her rooms every night from eight to ten o'clock , when she does not admit the ladies and gentlemen of the court , but invited persons , among whom there are frequently those who do not even belong to the aristocracy . '' `` She does not invite us to the evening parties , '' exclaimed Leopoldine , sneeringly . `` Maybe we are too aristocratic for her . But you are right , Louisa -- as soon as we are married , we shall also have the right to change rules of etiquette and live as we please . ''