eight in the evening
`` Diamonds are diamonds , and garnets are garnets ; and I am not so romantic but what I know the difference . '' On the evening before the marriage Alice and Lady Glencora walked for the last time through the Priory ruins . It was now September , and the evenings were still long , so that the ladies could get out upon the lawn after dinner . Whether Lady Glencora would have been allowed to walk through the ruins so late as half-past eight in the evening if her husband had been there may be doubtful , but her husband was away and she took this advantage of his absence . `` Do you remember that night we were here ? '' said Lady Glencora . `` When shall I forget it ; or how is it possible that such a night should ever be forgotten ? ''