eleven o'clock
We can only act after your visit to him , for as you have not seen / him / it is as if you had seen nobody . Go , go to Frascati , my dear son . '' And thereupon Pierre could only bow and reply : `` I will go , Monseigneur . '' ALTHOUGH Pierre knew that he would be unable to see Cardinal Sanguinetti before eleven o'clock , he nevertheless availed himself of an early train , so that it was barely nine when he alighted at the little station of Frascati . He had already visited the place during his enforced idleness , when he had made the classical excursion to the Roman castles which extend from Frascati to Rocco di Papa , and from Rocco di Papa to Monte Cavo , and he was now delighted with the prospect of strolling for a couple of hours along those first slopes of the Alban hills , where , amidst rushes , olives , and vines , Frascati , like a promontory , overlooks the immense ruddy sea of the Campagna even as far as Rome , which , six full leagues away , wears the whitish aspect of a marble isle . Ah ! that charming Frascati , on its greeny knoll at the foot of the wooded Tusculan heights , with its famous terrace whence one enjoys the finest view in the world , its old patrician villas with proud and elegant Renascence facades and magnificent parks , which , planted with cypress , pine , and ilex , are for ever green !